Shellfies

With what started as a daily ritual during the pandemic evolved into an obsessive project. For two years, Gabriella creating a daily series of Shellfies - whimsical characters she assembles from sealife, rocks and plants collected on her morning walks. Vivid in their expressions, each Shellfie, inhabits a different personality trait and story (some are kind, comforting, sympathetic while others are distraught, pensive or anxious). This therapeutic exercise during quarantine examines the.relationship between the natural physical world and the world of social media. While finding a glimpse of humor during this isolating time, the Shellfies are new friends temporarily brought to life. Each day, they slowly dissipate in nature as they are washed away by the sea, blown by the wind, or buried in the sand. The only documentation left is temporarily on social media.