Deborah Kennedy’s invocations to the oceans and the life in them surge like the spring tides. Her words and images call us to remember the many life forms sharing the blue planet.
Deborah Kennedy
Call and Response
Call to the blue. Call to the blooming green. Call to the wind, bearing the scent of the sea.
Plankton are lifeforms floating in salt or fresh water and they perform innumerable ecological roles as they shape the geology and life on our planet. Phytoplankton produced our planet’s first oxygen-rich atmosphere fostering the growth of other plants and eventually animals. Today, they produce almost seventy percent of the oxygen we breathe and their wide array of ecological services make them critical to supporting all life on the land and in the sea.
