The Red Tide of 2018 in the Southwest Florida Gulf of Mexico waters (Karenia Brevis) created massive death of our marine life (fish, manatees, dolphins, shorebirds, large turtle populations), and the aerosolization of the neurotoxins from these endemic dinoflagellates caused serious respiratory illnesses.  

It was months of sadness as the damage to our ecology increased.  I created a small painting to evoke the invisible cells popping forth out of the Gulf waters, and then I thought it might be fun to digitize at the image, and create three abstract versions.  The new images were then printed on fabric and heavily quilted before they were mounted on large canvases.