12" x 16" giclée reproduction of original painting made in grief and joy and prayer for the aliveness of earth.  Reproduction is backed with repurposed cardboard; SHIPS FLAT in either plastic or GMO corn-based non-plastic sleeve. [Please send me a message with your order if you would like the option of buying a print shipped without a protective sleeve.] Printed on recycled paper, which was made by a multi-generation family company, with energy from one of the 190 dams on the St. Joseph River on unceded Miami land, present-day Michigan. The dam that powered the machines that made this paper currently has a fish ladder, which allows some, but certainly not all, native (including threatened and endangered) fish species to pass a little closer to their ancestral spawning grounds. Ships via USPS ground service, using fossil fuels made from the astoundingly giant plants of the Carboniferous period. 
 
Painted, while studying the gorgeous photographs of Sugar McDaniel, August of 2024.  The earth in all her queerness.  Sea slugs and river deities.
 
"When they went ashore the animals that took up a land life carried with them a part of the sea in their bodies, a heritage which they passed on to their children and which even today links each land animal with its origin in the ancient sea.  Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal--each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium and calcium are combines in almost the same proportions as in sea water."  -Rachel Carson in The Sea Around Us