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Balancing Act
Acrylic & ink on canvas, 30x48

According to the IUCN, our reefs are among the most threatened ecosystems on earth. Some of the factors which are killing the corals are the increasing temperature of our oceans, ocean acidification, coral bleaching, unethical fishing methods, water pollution, sedimentation, and human activities.
Corals constantly play a balancing act with the waters they have to work with and can undergo only so much bleaching before they just can't continue and they die.
It is our choice to catch our behavior in time to save this ecosystem and the number one way is to be mindful of our carbon footprint and unnecessary consumption habits.
 
 Acts of repetition and patterning are continuous and very centering in her creative journey and come through meticulous, and purposefully drawn, symbols mixed with binary code (ones and zeroes) clustered, repetitive, and tightly organized. 
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​These manifest her anxiety over our physical world disappearing and being replaced or filtered by technology and virtual reality. Perhaps her nostalgia for how life was before technology comes into play, and is part of the reason she is so hypersensitive to present-day life circumstances on this planet.
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