Widespread Panic - conch shell Stickers black nickel & silver)

black nickel & silver)

I was definitely drawn to the shape of a swallowtail

Over the past few years I've received an avalanche of messages

the feathers have grown eyes and a number of other new faces indigenous to the Texas landscape make appearances

Kulap Vilaysack

Widespread Panic - conch shell Stickers black nickel & silver)Do you remember the first time you held a conch up to your ear? I was five and at a family reunion in Port Arthur, Texas. It felt like the entirety of the ocean went blasting by as I pressed the shell against my ear. It's that moment, that rush, that feeling when the hair stands up on my arm that I'm trying to recapture here with my art. There's a coral like shape in the background that is meant to mirror the foam patterns in the tide that washes