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Susan Brubaker Knapp here. I have started work on a new piece I am calling “We All Swim Together.” It will include many species of fish, both fresh-water and salt-water. It will be a large piece. I am hoping to show the amazing beauty and diversity of fish, and to point out the many issues they face: over-fishing, pollution, global warming, destruction of wetlands, regulation of rivers and dams, and many more.
I have appreciated the beauty of fish since I was a little child, fishing with my father. There is something magical in their glistening scales, and shimmering fins. They are so amazingly graceful. It is terrible to think that so many species are endangered.
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Susan, these are amazing. How are you selecting your fish? One of my favorites as a kid was called the sunfish- a perch with a yellow belly. Found in brackish water I think. We were in the tidewater area of Virginia.
ReplyDeleteI'm selecting them mostly based on how interesting they look! And some because of issues affecting their survival. I am very familiar with sunfish, and will definitely include one, Nancy!
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