Many thoughts circulated when I made this quilt. What does it mean to be a pescatarian? (A label, as a vegetarian and sometimes fish eater, I dislike.) Salmon the fish and salmon the color. Piles of dead fish, overfished by the worldwide fishing industry. How many fish species will go extinct due to overfishing, pollution and climate change? Will new ones evolve and adapt to the Anthropocene era? Will fish be available as a source of nutrition for our children and grandchildren? Will the micro plastics in fish give us cancer? My brother Chris McKibbin is a senior fish scientist for the California Department of Fish and Game, on the frontlines of these issues. His email handle, for as long as I can remember, has been “deadfishes.”
