Matthew 8:26-27. He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”
One word was all it took for Jesus to still the storm. "Peace." No storm is too big for him.
This piece began with a piece of cedar. I immediately saw the wave and used metal mesh to create the bottom tail. The colors of the mineral specimens found within the earth are the same colors found within the ocean. Most of the shells I picked up on the Texas coast, others are from islands I've traveled. I found the barnacles washed up on the beach after Hurricane Harvey in Port Aransas. The Lightening Welks are the Texas State shell I've found around Rockport. The driftwood, also from the Rockport area is weathered Mangrove. The middle of the wave is a piece of slice conch. It is filled with aquamarine, crystal points and glass smalti. Mineral specimens include apophyllite, aragonite, red calcite, pearls, abalone, ammonite, chrysocolla, blue kyanite and lapis, green calcite, malachite and azurite, coral, moonstone, shells, oyster, exotic wood, raw ruby, stone smalti, pebbles and a sea urchin, sand dollar and coral fossils.
- Subject Matter: Ocean
- Inventory Number: 0025