Southern Eagle Ray and the juvenile Leather Jackets

The ocean calls to me constantly.
I don’t always need to submerge myself, often it is enough to wander its fringes.
I collect the rubbish and like a symbiotic relationship, Mother Ocean washes up gifts. Gifts that are so magnificent that I feel compelled to share their beauty. I seek to document, these often hidden treasures. The more I look, the more I see, the more I learn and understand. And the more my passion and curiosity grow, often to the point of exhausting obsession.

My artwork seeks to celebrate both the Eagle Ray and the Leather Jackets strength, beauty and ultimate vulnerability.
The juvenile leather jackets perished due to upwelling and thermal shock, the Eagle Ray most likely from a recreational line fisher.
To watch an Eagle Ray with its huge wings flying through the water is spell binding.
I have tried to capture this magic in my image.