Artist Statement: The Pacific Northwest boasts extensive kelp forests. These cool-climate underwater plants are famous for their ability to harbor fish, seals and the most adorable creatures, sea otter. With global warming, our kelp forests are struggling. Invasive intruders like the purple sea urchin move further north. They eat and destroy the seabed of the kelp and eel grasses, essential for young and migrating salmon. (Read more @ClothInCommon.com)

Materials & Techniques: Custom screen-printed with thickened dye on cotton by the artist, machine quilted Variations of sheer fabrics; cotton and metallic thread, fabric paint and Tsukineko Inks painted free hand.

Dimensions: 40 x 20 x 0

Photographer: Lisa Jenni