Bathing in light
Personal memory by Cristina M.
2000 CE • Puerto Rico
One of the best days swimming in a bioluminescent bay in Puerto Rico. The flashes of lights warned you if any creature approached your vulnerable body. Bathing in light. Now in danger of disappearing.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022-2023
Image: Edgar Torres, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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