Ever Connected
1995 CE • South Carolina, USA
While I was in college 20 years ago, I worked in a biological oceanography lab. We were working on a project to determine why the cod fish population had continued to go down even after measures were put in place to stop the overfishing. So many theories from so many labs were working on it. What I learned from that I carry to this day is how fragile the inhabitants of this earth are and how much we affect one another. Ever connected. I see it everywhere now.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: Joachim S. Müller via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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