That’s the title of the current exhibition of “satellite members” of D’Art Gallery, a cooperative in the downtown Denver arts district (900 Santa Fe). I joined the Gallery as a satellite member about a year and a half ago.

For this year’s show, I sent a series of five images from a larger collection I call “#TrackingTide.” The collection came about because one fine day on Dauphin Island, Al., I was walking back toward my car on “East End Beach” with the waves of the Gulf of Mexico lapping at my feet. I had already photographed the birds and Atlantic ghost crabs and other critter on my way down the beach and so I began looking for something new to photograph on the way back. I looked down and… noticed.

Surf interacts with sand and bits of shell and other beach detritus in fascinating ways. Some people look up and see all kinds of creatures and things in the clouds. I look down and see bits of nursery rhymes, musical phrases, and all kinds of creatures and things in the tracks left by receding tide. So I call the larger and ongoing collection from which the images for this show were drawn “#TrackingTide.”

The very ephemerality of the patterns is part of the attraction to me. Once when i was standing with camera pointed straight down making fine adjustments to my framing, a slightly larger wave than most washed over my feet and erased the very pattern before I clicked. Gone! And a new pattern began to form in its place.

At this point I have added to the collection from several beaches on Dauphin Island and several beaches along the gulf coast of Louisiana. Walking the beach has become a favorite past time. It is an ever-changing glimpse into the mysteries, beauties, and interconnectedness of all creation.

The show will be up at the D’Art Gallery at 900 Santa Fe in Denver the entire month of November.