Title: ‘Green Sea Turtle’

Series/Location: Equator

Size: 22×55 in (55.8×139.7cm)

Date Created: June 6th, 2019

Medium: Pigment on Museum Archival Parchment

Editions: Signed 1 of 7 Editions Unframed

Description: Green Sea Turtle confronts the viewer with the quiet monumentality of life beneath the surface. This adolescent Chelonia Mydas in suspended ascent, enveloped by shafts of refracted light and drifting particulates that echo the visual language of the sublime. At nearly life-size, the turtle’s form assumes a spectral presence—both intimate and mythic—calling to mind ancient navigators or fossilized ancestors adrift in the liminal.

This work investigates themes of migration, ancestral memory, and ecological fragility. To strip color from the seascape amplifies a tension between presence and disappearance—between the eternal drift of the ocean and the very real threat of extinction that shadows its inhabitants. In its scale and austerity, Green Sea Turtle becomes not only a portrait of marine life, but a meditation on silence, and the unseen rhythms of the natural world.