09/19/2026
Asante, the (mini) North Atlantic Right Whale, Eubalaena glacialis; critically endangered.
Asante means thank you in Swahili, or gratitude; I for one, am incredibly grateful we share the earth with these spectacular creatures… for now anyway…
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Asante started as a test subject, you may have seen him during the Inspired by the Sea exhibit in Provincetown, or my post anyway; he was super excited to get to hang out on the American Promise with the Rozalia Project peeps.
Embarrassingly I neglected to add his flippers before the show 🫣 when I got back to my art table, I was like, what are these little black things? Oh dear! Pole sana, Asante!
He was just grateful he didn’t have his own post looking like that. smh
His big sister, Augie, who he was the practice subject for, will have her big unveiling next week in Plymouth, Mass.
He doesn’t have smooth side, rough side- but he does have happy side, kind of ticked off side (could be the flipper thing tbf).
Asante is made with marine debris cleaned off of Cape Cod shores - landscape fabric, styrofoam cups and trays, a takeout container and driftwood; also includes scraps of leftover chicken wire and hardware cloth from a different sculpture, and bits of electrical wire that were left after a refurb.
The Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean
