158:. She attached small oil paintings of the sea to a string and immersed them in the ocean. Some broke free and disappeared. She was able to reel others back in, battered and discolored by salt and water. She then repeated the experience with squares of raw canvas and, after retrieving them sewed their water stained remains together. She grew salt crystals on paintings and treated raw canvas with blue dye and salt water to create a surface that suggested the patterns of rippling water.
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