On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake resulted in 16,000 deaths in
Japan and a tsunami wave that destroyed property, some of it making its
way east across the Pacific and washing ashore in Oregon. The first of
this tsunami debris was an enormous cement dock that landed on Agate
Beach in Newport on June 5, 2012. I photographed some of the dock's
cement texture and combined it with other photos I'd taken of peeling
paint on a fishing boat, paint splatters on docks, and more to create
this piece. I particularly like the feeling of time passing in the "sky"
and the quiet movement of the dock as it floated along the current from
Japan to the Oregon coast. ©Carol Leigh
