Ocean In A Bottle

by Igor Zenin · 2023

A flock of dark birds wheels over a still, glowing sea beneath a sky burning purple to orange around a soft pink sun, a lone sailboat balanced on the horizon line. In the foreground a corked glass bottle lies washed up in the sand beside a single gull mid-splash in the shallows. The whole scene reads as a message twice over — once in the birds circling overhead, once in the small vessel waiting to be found at the water's edge. Ocean In A Bottle treats a sunset as something someone might have tried to send.