Mussel Formations

During the summer of 2021, there was a record-breaking heatwave in coastal BC.  Millions of shoreline creatures cooked in their shells and died.  Months later, there were mounds of empty shells on the beach.  I gathered a few hundred mussel shells and made sprig molds of them.  Now I cast these molds in clay to make individual mussels for use as components in constructing these ceramic mussel formations.