This watercolor is a part of the collaborative environmental project by Helen Klebesadel and Mary Kay Neumann entitled: The Flowers Are Burning: An Art and Climate Justice Project. It can be seen here: https://www.theflowersareburning.com

"Subterranean Homesick Blues: Corals in Crises Series"
Collaborative Watercolor by Mary Kay Neumann and Helen Klebesadel 22x30

"I was just born, I was just born
I've been crawling till I learned to walk
When I met you I was so young
I didn't know that it could fall apart.

Tell me what do I do
Now I see what we have done
And I know that it's true
You give me nothing but love.

I been trying, I been trying
To tell you what's inside my soul
I've been dying, I've been dying
But the ocean changes slow.

And it’s hard to see it
But I know that it’s true
That I got to be better
So much better to you.
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I scream in color
Tell me, can you hear me through the waves?
If we keep on waiting
Do we lose the things that we can save?

If we hold each other
We don't have to let it slip away…
We don't have to let this
Slip away.

Tell me how long, tell me how long
Till we see the pieces that'll break?
Tell me how long, tell me how long
Till we wake up?
Till we wake up?
Tell me how long, tell me how long
Till we wake up?"

– Adapted from "Tell Me How Long"(from the Netflix documentary "Chasing Coral" soundtrack) by Dan Romer and Teddy Geiger