SUZETTE VAN DORSSER
Seaweed
This body of work is a quiet celebration of what remains unspoiled.
Each layered print is a study in tide and texture — drawn from the beaches of Aotearoa, where storms leave behind not waste, but life. Seaweed, shells, driftwood, kelp: tangled threads of our coastal ecology that tell us, in their quiet accumulation, that this place still breathes. That the sea, here, still speaks its language.
The idea began with a return — to my local beaches after time spent abroad, where the shorelines were choked with the evidence of human excess. I felt a shift. Not anger, but gratitude. How rare it is now to walk a beach and find only salt, only seaweed.
Like counting insects in a forest to measure its health, these works look for signs of life, not loss. They’re layered, meditative compositions — less a warning than a remembering. They invite the viewer to observe the ordinary miracle of natural abundance. And to hold onto it.
