Scale is hard to convey - but each of these three canvases stand at 8 feet tall. The triptych is about 15 feet wide, and each of the small dots you see are the 1500 brooches we created. The clusters of brooches are organized around areas that have experienced catastrophic spills, but they spread around the oceans to remind us that no spill is ever contained.
During the exhibition, visitors helped us 'clean-up' our world by purchasing brooches and removing them from the oceans. This symbolic act can't change what happened in the Gulf, but the jewelry now carries a message of warning out into the world.
We also created a series of special edition brooches, featuring wildlife that has been directly effected by the spill; From Blue Crab to the Brown Pelican (Louisiana's State Bird), to Kemp Ridley's Sea Turtle, the Dwarf Sea Horse, and Dolphins.
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