Ebb the Tide

Artivist. Awareness and activism through Marine-debris and conservation art. I was recently awarded a daily 'Points of Light' national award for my project.

Educating and keeping awareness on our plastic problem through art, humour, creations, shows, exhibits and information. It's going to take all of us. Reduce your consumption. Rethink, repurpose, reuse what you have. Recycling is never the answer - though please keep recycling what you can!!!

08/29/2026

Things not on my summer bingo card: my stop-motion films on a boat sail.

Last night I got to be a part of the Films on Boats Project, a collaboration between Laura Ludwig and Center for Coastal Studies, the Rozalia Project, the Hindu and filmmaker Maya Erdelyi - Floating Vision as part of this week’s Inspired by the Sea 2026; a festival of art, science and sailing. I am, as you all know, very inspired by the sea. 🌊🐋

To start the event, I got to do my first live exploratory visual light program (with and under Maya’s tutelage of course) also with a fellow student of hers, Janet (who created the most excellent sea mermaid witch in our shadow puppet/stop motion class this week at PAAM). Way too much fun! (I’m adding ‘get an overhead projector’ to my fall bingo card if anyone has one they want to donate or sell to me!)

Two of my ‘Now You See Me’ films were shown, along with a tiny short I made this week with a shadow puppet humpback whale - of course made with marine-debris not paper (🤭) and a film I made in elementary school that Maya surprised me by including! Omgosh too much fun all around. (I will be sharing both..)

And… I have never shown my NYSM series in front of an audience before, I can’t tell you how delighted I was to hear the audience reaction to my goofiness. If there were ever a week/month I needed it, it was this one.
I have so much more to share, all the cool art and artists, my class, etc. forgive me in advance, in the words of one of my recent poems, there is a possibility that I will talk too much… and by ‘possibility’ I mean…

Part 1 of a lot of posts upcoming about this week.

08/26/2026

I am so excited for this week! My stop-motions on boat sails, new art never seen before in boat galleries… maybe some other art in other galleries… alongside all of these wicked cool marine debris artists I am so grateful to call most of them friend. It’s going to absolutely rock, I wouldn’t miss it if I were you.

I’d hoped to have been sharing images from being on said boat this week, creating art on the high seas, maybe cleaning up some debris, but my doctor and the universe had other plans for me this summer. (I’m fine, but still healing - turns out sailboats are too unpredictable, blah blah).

08/24/2026

Can’t wait for this! Hope to see you at some or all of it! 💙🌊🐋

08/12/2026

eclipse.

Hope you get to see it! 🌞🌑

Revisited. (…and I love this happy song so much, haha, you will probably see this again every eclipse to come).

Sun, moon and stars made entirely with marine debris cleaned off of local beaches, lobster trap tags among other things…

07/26/2026

A post about idealism, and hope, and geekiness.

My poetry is all sad. My heart hurts. My hand is cramped from writing so many postcards begging people to vote for the health of our planet, and my country (should I have to beg people to vote in their own best interests?) See? I’m off to a bad start, back to idealism…

Today I spent a couple of delightful hours mono-printing marine debris, just playing with the intent of these being layers or backgrounds… I made a bunch of collographs the other day of some of the net and fabric I’ve found (never thought of that before, made it way easier to print!) all with the intention of creating some sample pieces to apply for an upcoming residency.

I have applied to just a few residencies over the years, only one I thought I had an actual chance at - I didn’t it turned out, and the other two went as expected. But now, the residency of my dreams - honestly- everything I could ever want in a residency… has found me. I have learned my idealism is alive and well and bursting at the seams with excitement. I’m just going to let her run for now. There is so much joy in anticipation, and in believing in amazing things to come.

Hope is where I’ve lived for many years, hope that humans will be better mostly, but other hope as well, it has been a mantra of mine for most of my life. It’s getting trickier, but like a line in one of my sad poems; I am currently “hoping against hope that it’s not too late, to still have hope”…

And the geekiness? I grabbed this book from the discarded table at the library to make art with being pretty much a mermaid and all. Water, first published 1967. Never read it because it looked very dry… every print I pulled I was reading the page on the back wishing I hadn’t torn the book all apart - about the salt in the sea, shifting of faults, composition of islands in Africa, pollution, tilapia… and on and on. It might have been a favourite book, ok I am kidding there, but it would have certainly had a lot of things highlighted in it!

My geeky soul was happy. My artivist soul was happy. My idealist soul was ridiculously happy and singing quite loudly.

07/22/2026

Battered not broken. Yet.

Like this flag, when our democracy is restored, it will be a bit tattered and ratty around the edges, but it will stand strong again.

Our country will never be the same, but we can bring it back to of the people, by the people, for the people. If we vote in the midterms.

Primaries happening across the country now.

Please vote for democracy and our planet.

07/18/2026

💙

07/09/2026

Piece x Piece VIII is awesome.

My found ghost gear piece fits in nicely. Go visit. It’s cool.

Some of the coolness includes pieces made with plastic cat figurines, little books, wooden doorways, wool, glass ;pieces that are knitted, felted, made from the wrack line, beaded, stamped, bedazzled…

It’s really a not to be missed collaborative piece. Glad to be one of the 150 artists.

Cotuit Center for the Arts

07/04/2026

We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness ...

Democracy makes me happy. Bees make me happy. Right Whales make me happy. My fascist leaning government does not. Single use plastics do not. Pesticides killing off our pollinators do not. My pursuit of happiness seems to be impeded by greed and complacency.

My American flag made with trash cleaned off local beaches, foam tray, bait bag, lobster trap tags and a shellfish label, displayed on a balloon.

Happy 250th.

06/27/2026

we beach cleaners be like…

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