We went down to the beach at the end of the night and there were at least seven, maybe ten seals spinning and turning and driving the fish up against the shore. I have spent a lot of my life watching seals but never at night like this, and because of the city lights we could see the way they move the water, the way they push it ahead of them and trail it behind, but also how they wear it, how they wrap it around themselves. We could hear them breathing and we could see them thinking, but also we could see where they were joking, where they were playing with each other. It was absolutely one of the best nights of my whole life.
Corey Hardeman
Born and raised in Halifax, Corey Hardeman has lived most of her adult life in British Columbia. She holds a BSc in Biology and has spent most of her life searching for ways to make a living gazing into tidal pools and forest canopies. For several years she lived off-grid in a hand built yurt, and made paintings in the brief intervals between tending to her four young children. Now that her children are larger and she’s traded her tent in the forest for solid walls, she paints all day and often marvels at the luxury of hot and cold running water.
You can see more of Corey’s work HERE.