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It’s an intuitive and seasonal association, perhaps slightly mundane, certainly spurred by the coastal region I find myself in as I begin putting ideas on Ina Gerken’s work into words. With her paintings in mind and the sea in sight, my thoughts wander a proximate territory, where the terminology of coastal ecology washes ashore: words such as littoral, which denotes the threshold between sea and land, where a diverse mix of organic debris links the marine system to the terrestrial one by providing resources for coastal food webs. Let me narrow this range to what is known as the foreshore or …