2025 / 5 works
Behind Playa Buena Vista, where Day works in Costa Rica, an estuary runs as a biological reserve. The series takes its first title from what an estuary is: the nursery of the sea.
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2024 / 5 works
Large works on paper. Portal 1 entered the permanent collection of the Elihu Burritt Library at Central Connecticut State University in 2026.
Watercolor inks, pigment and ink pen on 100% cotton paper
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2017 - 2023 / 25 works
Water seen from inside it - Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Maui, Long Island Sound, Provincetown.
“Made at mid-tide and designed to vanish as the high tide arrived.”
Playa Buena Vista, Esterones, Guanacaste, Costa Rica / 2021
Two giant Hawaiian green sea turtles, built with people from the village from driftwood found on the beach they were made on. The beach is home to a turtle sanctuary. The turtles faced Hawaii - a love letter to a place losing the same species. Made at mid-tide and designed to vanish as the high tide arrived.
Connecticut shoreline / Ongoing
An ongoing series of temporary, non-toxic murals created to draw attention to our vanishing sea life. Day and guest artists paint them on a seawall. The full history of images lives on Instagram at @seawall_art4aPurpose.
Westport, Connecticut / 2020
Temporary murals highlighting endangered species, made with three other artivists. They lasted as long as Mother Nature allowed.
Playa Buena Vista, Costa Rica / 2016 - 2019
Playa Buena Vista holds the Bandera Azul, given by the Costa Rican government to its most pristine beaches. This plastic was picked up there in less than ten minutes.
Day is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, and illustration from dual studios in Samara, Costa Rica and Bridgeport, Connecticut. Holding a BFA in Art and a practice rooted in decades of sustained inquiry, Moore occupies a compelling position at the intersection of aesthetics and environmental ethics.
Her material vocabulary - oil paint, watercolor inks, and site-sourced natural elements - is inseparable from her conceptual concerns. Moore identifies as an artivist, and her work functions as both lyrical meditation and cultural critique, interrogating humanity's relationship to the natural world at a moment of profound ecological precarity.
Alongside her studio work, Moore creates ephemeral installations - sculptures and murals constructed from organic materials and surrendered, by design, to wind and tide. Executed in solitude and in community-collaborative contexts alike, these vanishing works engage questions of impermanence, entropy, and collective responsibility. The dissolution is the statement.
Her canvases and drawings extend this investigation - the ocean rendered not merely as subject, but as index of what remains and what we stand to lose. Moore's practice resists the decorative, insisting instead that beauty carries an obligation.
Day donates a percentage of each painting sold to The Captain Paul Watson Foundation, whose mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans.
1995 - 2026 / 67 entries
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