The Terns and the Guilty Wanderer

I love Japanese prints. This was a piece I made during an artist residency at the C-Scape Dune Shack in Provincetown, MA. The residency was three weeks in a dune shack with no electricity or running water. Once a week I would drag a plastic red snow sled over the sand and hike a mile and a half down the beach to the coast guard station at Race Point to fill my empty Water containers, and drag them back across the sand to the studio/shack. Half way through my journey I would have to cross through the nesting area for piping plovers and terns. It would always be a harrowing and desperate 300 yard sprint through the dive bombing birds…and I would intermittently need dive to the sand in a fetal position and cover my head as I took a "breather" to keep my lungs from bursting and to protect my head and body from being pecked as I made my way through with a rope around my waist attached to my plastic sled filled with a dozen full gallon jugs of water.