from the thousand shores
to which they found their way
--Kay Ryan, from “All Shall Be Restored”
Sometime in her early twenties, Megan Barron took some slides, one of which “was intriguing but sadly underexposed.”
It occurred to me to remedy the mistake by trying to make a painting of the image, which I did by peering through the slide held between my fingers. . . . While I probably gave myself a headache, I was surprised at its turning out well & thought, “Maybe I can do this—paint.”In her current project, wrack line: one year of beach finds, illustrated, Barron demonstrates her considerable artistic talent every single day. The wrack line project, as described by Barron, is “a daily visual journal of what washes ashore. Every day for a year I will post a new painting or drawing of treasures found during beach walks.”
