Inspiration for this series came while reading the book “Glow: Animals with Their own Night - Lights”by W. H. Beck with my oldest son. The book is about about bioluminescence and this particular passage about dino- flagellates stuck out. "Little animals glow. But if you have enough of them they can have a BIG effect" The fact that small creatures can coalesce together with spectacular results ( in the case of dino-flagellates glowing tides) is a metaphor for the times we live in.

While researching further I discovered that Bioluminescence is the most common form of communication on earth! 

There are multiple contexts that inform this series. Through the course of creating this work I learned that I am on the autism spectrum, the COVID pandemic started ( and is still going) and several global crises of people and planet have been ongoing. I saw this series as a way to talk about largely uncharted depths of the ocean AND of loss of human capacity to go deep inside oneself when we encounter adversity and challenges or to lean into community ( represented by the deep sea creatures that have adapted ). In this series we see a figure falling into the depths of the ocean and figuring out how to make their own light in the darkness and move through difficulties.