Abalone Queen
Faces for Life Mask
Acrylic Paint, Yarn, Wire, Fabric, Plaster Bandage, etc.
June 2003

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet. Its beautiful and terrible mysteries have always fascinated me. It encompasses life, death, and eternal change, as expressed in these lines from The Tempest:

Full fathom five thy father lies:
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Hark! now I hear them--ding-dong, bell.