Savannah Asmus is an artist based along the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay. Her work begins with fragments of broken pottery—discarded, eroded objects that surface and disappear with the tide. These remnants, often centuries old, are the residual traces of everyday lives once embedded in the landscape.

Rather than restoring the fragments to an imagined completeness, Asmus paints directly onto their surfaces using oil, allowing each shard’s contours, scale, and damage to guide the imagery that emerges.. Fragmentation itself becomes a form of historical truth.

Environmental stewardship is inseparable from this practice. Shoreline collecting is paired with regular beach cleanups, often undertaken alongside her students, reinforcing the connection between care for place and care for memory. The bay acts not simply as a source of material, but as an active collaborator—continually shaping what remains and what is lost.