Hopeful

From the Tide Keepers Collection
Mixed Media Collage

30 x 40 inches

Created with repurposed magazines, reclaimed paper, and acrylic paint.

Hopeful captures the ancient ritual of sea turtle hatchlings making their first passage toward the ocean — a perilous and profound journey. Created entirely from reclaimed magazines and scrap paper, the piece mirrors the resilience of life and the urgent need to repurpose what we discard. Every torn fragment once destined for landfill or ocean waste has been reborn into a story of persistence and possibility.

Sea turtles have graced this planet since the time of the dinosaurs. They are living echoes of Earth’s distant past, carrying with them the memory of survival through epochs of change. In their struggle toward the sea, we witness the powerful passage of new life — the push toward continuity in the face of overwhelming odds.

The tides in this piece are more than water; they represent the eternal ebb and flow that connects all living things. They remind us that we are always in motion—shaped by forces greater than ourselves and drawn forward by instinct, memory, and hope.

Hopeful is a meditation on endurance, transformation, and the quiet power of nature to keep going. Even when the path is uncertain, life moves forward—one flipper, one ripple, one reclaimed fragment at a time. In these small but mighty sea turtles, we find a reason to believe that perhaps—just perhaps—the planet will survive us after all.