"Achepohl talks about Venice's famous resort, the Lido - its beaches, the sand, the ebb and flow of tides, the shells retrieved - as the genesis for his impressions His Gardens...are smaller, more personal vistas of immediate vision just at one's feet... he has captured the transitory magic of the beach ...each shell gleaming like a jewel to be retrieved, each pebble a translucent nugget ...(and) the quixotic bit of this tidal world, the kelp..." David Kiehl, Whitney Museum of American Art