On view January 30 through April 25, Tsunami is a deeply personal and visually arresting 36-piece mixed-media series by Tracy Anne Simmonds that transforms predatory lending mail, house paint, braided hair, pearls, and other recycled materials into layered works about waste, identity, and resilience. What began as anxiety over the flood of junk mail — more than 100 billion pieces annually in the U.S. — and the weight of creative and emotional labor during the pandemic became a space for processing fear and change through imagery inspired by tsunami dreams and the fluid line work of Japanese masters. Tsunami uses shredded credit card mailers not just as material, but as metaphor — turning detritus into vibrant surfaces that explore sustainability, mental health, and the alchemy of art as healing.
Simmonds’ practice bridges photography, painting, installation, and cultural storytelling; her gallery also features evocative bodies of work like Euphoric Vistas: An Ode to Palm Beach, intimate nature photographs created for hospital healing environments, and Botanical Intimacy, which captures quiet floral moments woven into human experiences.
For the artist, Tsunami is more than a series — its potential as an immersive installation with sculptural waves, soundscapes, and calming light reflects her belief that art can be both a catalyst for reflection and a balm for anxiety, inviting audiences to rethink consumption, presence, and transformation.
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