NEARSHORE REGULARS — Winter 2021
Artwork by Karen Hackenberg
Photos by Michael F. Adams
black oystercatcher photo by Michael Adams
NEARSHORE REGULARS — Winter 2021
Artwork by Karen Hackenberg
Photos by Michael F. Adams
frutti di mare
My original, hand-drawn, lithograph prints of the Frutti di Mare Suite, titled Calamari and Baby Squids, depict marine debris and mimic the pages of a naturalist’s notebook or antique encyclopedia of edible sea life, using wryly-subversive identifying text in the style of letterpress impressions of the 1800s.
lithograph by Karen Hackenberg
lithograph by Karen Hackenberg
American crow photo by Michael F. Adams
American crow photo by Michael F. Adams
meanwhile, back at the plastisphere
The plastisphere is a newly invented term used to refer to ecosystems that have evolved in human-made plastic environments. My gouache painting, Meanwhile, Back at the Plastisphere, depicts a stereotypical cartoon superhero battling his own obsolescence in the form of a plastic stegosaurus, as a metaphor for failing age-of-oil paradigms.
painting by Karen Hackenberg
In Winter, Sanderlings stop on their journey south to fatten up. Look for them feeding on small invertebrates along the shore in small to medium flocks.
Here’s a glaucous-winged gull feeding on a Red Irish lord.
photo by Michael F. Adams
photo by Michael F. Adams
primordial PETE and
theory of evolution
In my latest paintings, I riff on the ideas of 19th Century naturalist Charles Darwin. My painting of a plastic bottle-dog, Primordial PETE, steps out of the primordial ooze of the Plasticene Era to troll artist Jeff Koons. For this series, I assemble discarded green PETE plastic bottles to create models of post-apocalyptic sea creatures that I imagine evolving from the toxic soup of plastics and chemicals we humans have dumped into our oceans, as in my painting Theory of Evolution.
Theory of Evolution painting by Karen Hackenberg
Primordial PETE painting by Karen Hackenberg
And then there are the mammals….
photo by Michael F. Adams
Michael F. Adams is fortunate to have lived his life near, in, or on the waters of Puget Sound and Hood Canal where he finds the intertidal and nearshore environments irresistible. Trained as an engineer and educator, he’s taught science, served as a marine consultant and policy adviser to governments and is most proud of the family shellfish farm he built and operated with his wife Mary. When able, Michael takes great joy in observing and occasionally photographing local wildlife.
Influenced by Pop Art of the 1960s, Karen Hackenberg (RISD, BFA) takes a humorous subversive approach to the serious subject of ocean degradation in her work. She meticulously paints in oil and gouache, crafting images of beach trash in beautiful seascapes, aiming to create a provocative collision of form and idea.
Her paintings were chosen for the Northwest Art Now biennial exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum, highlighting identity, social justice, and environment. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art hosted a solo show of her work, and her paintings are currently traveling in the international museum show, Environmental Impact II.
Her green sensibility has earned a place in the collections of NY State Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State Art Collection, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, and Hallie Ford Museum of Art. She is currently featured in notable art magazines, LoDown, Berlin, Germany, and BlackBook, Brooklyn, New York.
Table of Contents, Issue #14, Winter 2021
Haiku-14
by Drea Dangerton, Winter 2021 photos by John F. Williams except as notedby Drea Dangerton, Autumn 2021 photos by John F. Williams except as notedToday I awokeAsking what adventure isIn store for this day.. Snowy meadow pathsReveal its...
Poetry 14
Winter 2021photo by Thomas Nolandphoto by Thomas NolandAutumn 2021 SACRED ONES by Diane Moser Outside my window cedars lift their needled arms salute a damp sky. I inhale their pungent smell of pitch and mold and a thousand showers. They tell ancient stories of...
Berries
by Sara Noland, Winter 2021 Photos by Thomas Noland except where notedphoto by John F. WilliamsBy Sara Noland, Winter 2021 Photos by Thomas Noland except where noteda late afternoon in mid-december Cold rain drizzles down, glazing everything in a silvery sheen. Around...
Let’s Try It
some novel additions By "novel additions" I do not mean that we're adding novels to Salish Magazine, at least not yet — despite the fact that I have come to realize that novels are actually one of the few good ways to convey things as complex as our ecosystems....
Visits Underwater
by Ed Gullekson, Winter 2021By Ed Gullekson, Winter 2021see the salish sea This first video was shot at one of the most popular dive sites in Washington. It is called Cove 2 and is located along the shoreline of West Seattle looking across Elliott Bay at downtown...
Pink Salmon
by John Gussman, Winter 2021By John Gussman, Winter 2021introduction I have spent many years filming the various salmon species on the Olympic peninsula, and this year I managed to get quite a bit of usable pink salmon footage in the Dungeness River. Not wanting to do...
Driftwood Beach Houses
by John F. Williams, Winter 2021 Photos by John F. Williams except where notedBy John F. Williams, Winter 2021 Photos by John F. Williams except where notedintroduction Many beaches around the Salish Sea are decorated with driftwood; some of which is from branches or...
Birds Catching Stuff
Photos by Michael F. Adams, except as noted Captions by Thomas NolandPhotos by Michael F. Adams except as noted Captions by Thomas Nolandcommon goldeneye These ducks are cavity nesting birds that often use the same tree cavity in successive years. The goldeneyes are...
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