Isn’t it amazing? So many moving parts. So strangely fluttery under water, alien even in its own home…an elegant armored spaceship. And always so (sadly) dead when I find them on the beach.

A student of mine made an absolutely amazing animation involving horseshoe crabs once…layers of pristine white and shadows, so very cool and clever. I think I’m going to make mine from brown paper bags…and see if I can hide some story inside. Just looking at this photo, I think there may be a million such places. We’ll see…