Mangroves!

64' x 24'
Key West, FL
2024

This design celebrates community, mutual aid, and environmental awareness through the illustration of three interconnected species: 

1. Red Mangroves play a critical role in the local ecosystem by holding together much of the Keys and the Florida coastline.

2. Florida Honeybees, the mangroves’ primary pollinator, is a highly communal species. Alongside humans, honeybees have the most organized and effective societies of any animal.

3. Humanity is represented in this design by homes, a ladder, and two figures helping each other. This imagery illustrates the way that Keys residents band together to rebuild their communities after seasonal hurricanes. 

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None of these three species could survive on their own; they are all intimately connected in the delicate ecosystem of the Florida Keys.