Original Painting

11” x 14”

While visiting Whidbey Island, I explored a tide pool in Oak Harbor. Tide pools always feel otherworldly to me. I feel so huge compared to the infinite species coexisting in the ecosystem below my feet but then you look out at the vast ocean and are reminded you’re just a tiny speck of dust on a floating rock in a huge galaxy. I love the play of scale and the similarities between the macro and micro. This optical illusion dances by pushing and pulling on reality like the waves washing back and forth. I love how the rocky formations made by the tides on the shore resemble the giant mountains on the horizon and the ripples remind me of topographic maps.

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gouache, acrylic, and graphite on cradled birchwood panel