If there’s one thing I love, it’s a good personal project. Something interesting and twisty and turny to sink my teeth into. Which, segues really conveniently to sharks, and more accurately, (fossilized) teeth.

The Fossil Hunters (working title) is a new project I began in late spring, 2021, documenting the wide variety of folks who explore the western coast of Maryland’s Chesapeake bay in search of fossilized shark’s teeth, whale and dolphin bones, and whatever else they can pull up. The art of fossil hunters traipses across multiple disciplines from paleontology and geology, to meteorology , climatology, and biology. On its journey it brushes up against anthropology, local tourism, commerce, ecology, and, coming full circle, art.

This is a part 1 of sorts, as I plan on exploring this topic from various angles and in a variety of mediums. Stay tuned!