Judges Comments:
These dolphins are both inspired by and emerge from the marbleized paint across the surface of the work. Their difference in scale, their proximity, and their implied eye contact depict an oceanic mother and child portrait. However, their simultaneously reflective and transparent skin maintain a surrealistic push and pull relationship between their positive contours and the negative swirls. Finally, I am attracted to the way their combined form exists in the rectangle like an undulating central heart with appendages that reach toward three of the four sides of our underwater viewfinder. They are buoyant and ebullient.