Beach Wrack

In the context of this installation, the term beach wrack is used inclusively and refers to any item washed up on the beach.

• Bone*

• Bull kelp*

• Buoy

• Chain

• Crab carapace*

• Driftwood*

• Feathers*

• Metal L-trim pieces

• Oyster shell*

• Particle board

• Plastic sheets

• Rope

• Sea glass

• Shell necklace*

• Springs from upholstered chair

• Steel cable

• Tire

• Wooden planks

*Organic material will return to the beach at the conclusion of the exhibition.

Objects

• Boots

• Cards

  Doug Bison bronze “Freshwater Lobster”

  Else Thorensen - Cascadia Art Museum

  Guy Anderson - i.e. gallery

  Salish Reliquary - courtesy of the artist

  Cetaceans of the Salish Sea - Salish Sea School

  Driftwood Islands on Puget Sound, Wash.

  View from Mt. Erie

• Cassette Ocean by Tomo Nakayama

• Cassette player

• Chair

• Compass

• Craft paper courtesy of Christine Chaney The Wabash Project

• Gloves

• Log book

• Maps

  Copy of vintage map of Fidalgo Island

  Nautical map of Skagit Bay

• Mug

• Pencil

• Photographs

  Drift logs Nos. 22, 31, 48 & 49

  Driftwood

  Damaged beach stairs

• Rocks

• Ruler

• Storage box

• Tidal knife

• Weaving of hand-spun Shetland, embroidery thread, and hemp twine courtesy of James Davis

Texts

Fate and transport of coastal driftwood: A critical review | Enda Murphy et al | 2021

Incorporating Indigenous voices in regional climate change adaptation: opportunities and challenges in the U.S. Pacific Northwest| Lauren A. Dent et al | 2023

The Need for Storytelling and the Relational in an Age of Isolating and Overwhelming Dystopian Information | Sharon Arnold | 2024

Northwest Treaty Tribes magazine| Winter 2026

Swinomish Marine Conditions Monitoring Technical Report| Daniel J. Sulak | 2024

Turning with the tide and time in the Salish Sea: change in estuary and nearshore habitats and species dependent on them | Correigh Greene et al | 2026

References

Tidal Currents of Puget Sound | Starpath Publications

Tide Tables and Dot’s Fishing Guide - Puget Sound | Bayless Enterprises

Various tide charts | Evergreen Pacific Publishing

Books