After the unexpected loss of my father in 2024 I began creating an aesthetic language of place, grief and lineage. I was unable to be present when his ashes were spread at Popam beach  in Bath Maine, very near to where my grandfather worked at an aluminum foundry, but I was able to visit that place later. I gathered knotted wrack seaweed from the area and lost wax cast it into jewelry, a necklace and earrings. The process of lost wax casting an organic object reminded me of the process of cremation in the way the original object is vaporized and all that is left behind is a hollow space, then filled with molten silver. I have done a series of art works based off of that experience with the seaweed, each with an increasing level of abstraction from the original object. Inspired by the knotted wrack seaweed on Haystack campus I made a series of small hollow steel vessels with silver soldered images of knotted rack in sterling silver- and forged it into a necklace.