I spend hours wandering the shorelines where I work, gathering shells and other treasures cast ashore after storms — fragments bleaching in the dunes, slowly becoming tomorrow’s white sands. Carefully placed, value is transformed.

As global warming acidifies the ocean and disrupts delicate biochemical processes, these treasures may no longer grow in the seas of tomorrow. Beaches are battered by erosion, with no reefs left to protect them.

Echoing Victorian curiosity cabinets, the work asks a haunting question: Did these wonders once truly exist?