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The series Sea Stone focuses on a four-mile stretch of sand, seagrass, and pines that divides the Pacific
Ocean from Nehalem Bay, south of the Columbia River. Made between 2005 and 2019, the 26
photographs depict the changing light on the dunes and the sea, and record the occasional seabird or
footprint left by human or animal visitors. In this shifting landscape, Adams explores the meaning of our
relationship to nature, and the precarity and brevity of our place in it.
The exhibition also features a selection of 16 x 20 inch prints from the 1980s and 1990s, made during a
brief window when Adams …