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12 × 12 inch diameter Acrylic painting on cradled wood panel
Austin Picinich: The ocean gives us proof that home is worth fighting current for. Salmon migrate home from the Pacific to the Puget Sound, through the Ballard Locks, and back to their exact birth stream to spawn. "Home" is not just ours - we share it.
I grew up along Juanita Creek, one of the spawning streams that feeds Lake Washington. Thousands of salmon once called Juanita home. After all these years, several streams have already met local extinction. Like a bridge over troubled water, these once-wild waterways now flow below paved roads… constrained by culverts, slip slidin’ away under decades of development and apathy.
That’s when I started my Save Our Salmon (S.O.S.) mural series. So far, I’ve painted 3,000 sq ft of murals along four of Lake Washington’s salmon-spawning streams. My murals paint messages to “S.O.S” along Juanita Creek, Denny Creek, McAleer Creek, and Thornton Creek.
My porthole is a portal into a sockeye swimming home. Homeward Bound is a direction - but it’s also about what’s Bound to happen to their Home, if our path continues.
12 × 12 inch diameter Acrylic painting on cradled wood panel
Austin Picinich: The ocean gives us proof that home is worth fighting current for. Salmon migrate home from the Pacific to the Puget Sound, through the Ballard Locks, and back to their exact birth stream to spawn. "Home" is not just ours - we share it.
I grew up along Juanita Creek, one of the spawning streams that feeds Lake Washington. Thousands of salmon once called Juanita home. After all these years, several streams have already met local extinction. Like a bridge over troubled water, these once-wild waterways now flow below paved roads… constrained by culverts, slip slidin’ away under decades of development and apathy.
That’s when I started my Save Our Salmon (S.O.S.) mural series. So far, I’ve painted 3,000 sq ft of murals along four of Lake Washington’s salmon-spawning streams. My murals paint messages to “S.O.S” along Juanita Creek, Denny Creek, McAleer Creek, and Thornton Creek.
My porthole is a portal into a sockeye swimming home. Homeward Bound is a direction - but it’s also about what’s Bound to happen to their Home, if our path continues.