Savannah Asmus is an artist based along the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay. Her work begins with fragments of broken pottery — discarded objects shaped by erosion, tide, and time. Often centuries old, these remnants carry traces of everyday life embedded within the Gulf Coast landscape.

Rather than reconstructing the fragments into imagined wholeness, Asmus paints directly onto their surfaces in oil, allowing each shard’s contours, scale, and damage to guide the imagery that emerges. Fragmentation itself becomes part of the narrative — a reflection of memory, loss, and the instability of preservation.

Collected through ongoing shoreline exploration and coastal cleanup efforts, the materials remain inseparable from the environment they come from. The bay functions not simply as a source of objects, but as a continual force of transformation, shaping what survives, what disappears, and what is left behind.