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13_14 Artist Book
13/14 artist book open

13 Years | 14 Pieces, 2020

Turtle shell, sea plastic, inkjet, tyvek, custom-made enclosure

4x4x1/2 or 1 inch each

Unique Edition

Three artist books--storage book structure

A book for the turtle shell

A book for the sea plastic

A book for a poem about the experience.

While beach-combing with a friend in the Caribbean, we discovered a green sea turtle washed up on the beach. Some of its shell had broken off and we gathered it up. When I returned home, I made a storage book with some of the gragments from the shell.

Fast-forward 13 years. I walked the same beach, with the same friend. This time I picked up plastic, not just big pieces, but little tiny finds—as beautiful as sea glass—and just as heartbreaking as finding that turtle years ago.

Some studies show it only takes 14 pieces of plastic to kill a turtle.

Excerpt from the book with the poem:

Their silence shifts to sadness

as they continue their walk

shells in hand

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Years later, they walk the same beach again

picking up what seems like bags and bags of trash

having a different kind of silent conversation

Waves swell and crash, licking the beach line

as the breeze fades away

inside of artist book
Turtle and Sea Plastic bookx
Turtle and Sea Plastic pages

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