shallows

"When I got myself back to the shallows where I could stand I was exhausted."

Each panel — created from 2016 to 2021 — is not linked to a specific location or event, but evokes different sensations, circumstances or environments, as indicated by the subtitles: “the shallows,” “down deep,” “echo,” “the waters.”

The author of this story can’t swim, at least not beyond the shallows.

On a dark night in February, two male lions stood in the shallows of the Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park, in Uganda, and looked across the water.

And the shallows around Southern California are not their usual home.