This is my first attempt at carving a fish and turtles. It's for a local river exhibit. Our local river was a dumping grounds for a few centuries, with woolen mills, a tannery, and electronics mfg, not to mention sewers. Over the years those industries closed, but PCBs remain, so fish still aren't safe to eat, but the river has come back with canoeing, catch and release fishing and hopes of eliminating some flood control chutes and using natural methods to control high water. I started off with the idea of carving a fish and it grew into a project with facades of the industries, and a representation of ghost fish. 20180104_011919-800x600.jpg20180104_011947-800x600.jpgI left a fin off the fish as a symbol that we aren't quite there yet, but the river is getting better.
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