While fording a river in Alaska during spawning season, numerous Cohoe salmon leaped high above the water in their journey upstream. The opposing force of the spawning run and the natural flow of the water around me inspired this work. Upon my return home, I sought to capture the upper cut of the jaw, the ruddiness of the belly characteristic of spawning salmon.

The highly polished heads are meant to evoke wetness and are a contrasting texture to the scaly body of the salmon.

The Wild Run won 1st place in the 3-dimensional art category of Lightspacetime’s International “Seascapes” Art Exhibition in October 2021. The  gallery received  590 entries from 21 different countries, as well as from 31 different states. 

The Wild Run has been selected for inclusion in the Spring 2020 “Sacred Waters” issue of ArtTour International magazine. This is a special ocean conservation issue that launched in bookstores at the end of April 2020.

The Wild Run (Spawning Salmon) is also included in a half-hour documentary Sacred Waters The Cry of the Ocean by Alan Grimandi, past winner of best documentary in N.Y. Film Awards. This new documentary premiered in June 2020 in N.Y.C.

The Wild Run was a 2018 Award Winner in the Manhattan Arts International “Our Bond with Nature” exhibition.

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