Oil on Canvas – 30” x 40”
November 2017
In this painting I show a tiny mollusk called a Pteropod, also known as a sea snail or sea butterfly, in the process of dissolving due to Ocean Acidification. The Pteropod forms the base of many marine food webs, so the consequences of its disappearance will reverberate up the food chain and affect many animals that depend on it for food, including the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, which is displayed here in the distance through the dissolving Pteropod shell.
As part of the dissolution and death of the Pteropod, I also display bleached and dying Coral, another essential marine species that suffers greatly due to both rising Ocean temperatures and Ocean Acidification
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