Forage

by Blue Myers

A chinook salmon smolt moves through a layered underwater world — surrounded by crabs, smaller forage fish, and branching kelp forms. This piece began as a physical collage of foraged materials — seaweed pressed and dried from the shores of Vashon Island, Washington. The original collage was then completed digitally, integrating additional marine elements and the central salmon smolt to build an intertidal scene. The title Forage refers both to the act of gathering the source materials and to forage fish as an ecological category — the small schooling species, like herring and anchovies, that form the foundation of Pacific Northwest marine food chains. The chinook smolt here is one step above that foundation, and one step below everything that depends on it.

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