"JAWS : A Beach Plastic Experience"
Online Auction until July 20th, 2025
Martha's Vineyard celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Stephen Spielberg's JAWS this summer with celebrity filled parties, orchestral showings, festivals, and art shows. I was lucky enough to be on island for the event, and made a piece to be part of the excitement.
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I have collected plastic on Martha's Vineyard's beaches for many years, and was able to make this piece exclusively of what I've found there. The red was a last minute find, a kite I found with my mom on Inkwell, and the teeth are quahog shell shards.
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"Beach Barrettes" SOLD - $6,000
Being found on every beach in the world, some think there was a container spill of hair barrettes, others joke that there are many a wild girl out there with undone hair.
To me, this is my five year beach combing collection of beautiful little pieces of nostalgia that I cherish. Each one has a story, each one went on it's own journey near and far among the waves and tides. All found on the beaches of the Chesapeake Bay.
This piece is protected in a museum grade acrylic shadow box.
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"Beach Combs" SOLD - $4,000
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Combs were among the first and most popular objects made of plastic.
Originally made of fragile bone and wood, plastic proved to be a more durable material, which is why many of this collection has "Unbreakable" embossed across it's brightly colored shafts. Which is ironic now against it's crumbling teeth.
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Many were printed with campaign slogans, which can still be read on many of them. One of which stating, "Mike Eagan for District Attorney". Eagan was DA in Pennsylvania in 1934. Dating some of this collection as old as 90 years. All found on Chesapeake Bay beaches.
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This piece is protected in a museum grade acrylic shadow box.
"Yay Drugs"
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Whether it be our phones, sugar, or maybe a stinky green, we all have our drug of choice.
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But being directly downstream from Baltimore, here on Kent Island of the Chesapeake Bay, finding these tiny drug vial caps and containers is unfortunately very common.
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This piece is protected in a museum grade acrylic shadow box.
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"Priorities"
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Getting to find these arcs of crab pot drift wood is a special treat unique to the Chesapeake Bay area.
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This self-caged magpie is sitting atop a copper wire nest, surrounded by a vintage clock ring and chain, and plastic sand bucket handle.
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Minus the newspaper bubble and hand painted bird, all the components were found here on the beach.
"Bird and the Bee"
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Being a lover of all things bird, when I found this bird skull on the beach my heart skipped a beat. I knew it needed an appropriate shrine to entomb it forever.
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And when my dog was kind enough to deliver this giant dead bee to me in his mouth, I knew they needed to be mates.
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I painted this gifted thrifted frame, found an old velvet dress to make a small pillow, decorated the trim with beach plastic flora and real dried flowers, staked a page from a book I found washed up that seemed appropriate, and then burned some candles, (that I eerily found on the beach as well), while honoring the lives of these tiny creatures.
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This piece is protected in a museum grade acrylic shadow box.