The Ocean’s Gift sculpture was designed by pressing clay into barnacles and shells living on a fourteen-million-year-old lava flow that reaches the shore at Yaquina Head, on the Oregon coast. Among the ancient people who lived in the area, shamans derived power from guardian spirits in the natural world around them, bringing back messages from the spirit world to their people for healing. 

A wick inside a hole in the bottom of the tidepool is for collecting drops of sacred water. A beautiful way to carry the water essence from any sacred site or ceremony. When you leave the cloth in place the water wicks into the clay body holding the living vibration and magnetism of each place and experience. The mermaid is removable.