Krisanne Baker
Declaration
My work aims to open a dialogue with viewers about our connections to the ocean. My hopes are that in learning of the wonders below the surface, more people will connect to wanting to care for and nurture our symbiotic relationships with nature; to learn to collaborate with nature, instead of simply live in it. I often use beauty and wonder as a way to draw in the audience; then present the audience with something unpleasant that is unbalancing that beauty that they enjoyed. Finally, stewardship and activism; to bring the dialogue and action to small things they can do to help care for that beauty and wonder; that they will learn and understand is a collaboration between them and the natural world.