Then and Then and Gone

Suspish appearing Winter 2020-2021

Summer 2021 Suspish repainted

Fall 2021 fishy gobbled up?  

Sharkies prevail, conjured by Suspish, a happy family?

September 2022, Sharks - wow - in place for a year;

here two hearts added!

October 2022, the puritanical powers who rule

with fog-gray wash eliminate Suspishous Sharks.

But... for how long?

On the banks of the Amazon, a tributary flowing from the south hills of Eugene to its confluence -- not as one would expect with the Willamette (Whilamut) River -- with the Long Tom River and Coyote Creek. The original marshlands, now dammed by Army Corps of Engineers as Fern Ridge Reservoir. Then, flow pulled by gravity, turning and finding the way north to an eventual mating with the Willamette, then north to the Columbia, then to the sea -- the maternal Pacific -- where all is embraced, dissolved, reincarnated as bright-turquoised insistent beings, swimming upstream to spawn.  

Remember: Suspish may be an artist imaginary -- but the teeth are real.

Further... Feature story about Suspish in Eugene Weekly, July 2022