VENTERS is a noun that describes what is brought to shore upon an ocean’s wave. A few years ago, I traded the Atlantic Ocean for the Pacific. As I was creating the most recent of these seascapes, I was influenced as I always am, by the coastal waterways of the Puget Sound-- the seascape where I spend the most time these days. But I also kept a box of childhood photos with me in the studio. I have a few favorite beach scenes among them. One day, I looked more closely at some of those 1970s era photos and noticed that the color was changed where one photo had laid on top of another one for years in storage. The geometric shapes created by that chemical change inspired these new paintings. Memories layered over one another, changed forever with time and distance.