In May 2018, I was invited to spend ten days on a research vessel, the Robert Gordon Sproul, that travelled from San Diego to the Santa Barbara Basin with marine biologists, chemists, Ph.D candidates and the ship’s crew to generate prints in response to the chief scientist’s research. Dr. Joan Bernhard studies Foraminifera surviving and adapting in dead-zones (low oxygen environments). Foraminifera or forams (informally called) are single-celled organisms that are found in all marine environments. These organisms are studied because of their unique response or adaptability to global change and the ability to study their fossil records. In the time since my trip I have developed and started an overwhelming number of prints, photographs and objects in response to the voyage and conversation with the scientists.
