Pin Point: Pearls and Perseverance is an original abstract cartography painting exploring the relationship between landscape, labor, memory, and the generations who have called Georgia’s coast home.
Created as part of the Savannah Cartography Series, the painting is inspired by Pin Point, a historic Gullah-Geechee community established along the Moon River in the 1890s by formerly enslaved African Americans and their descendants. For generations, the surrounding marshes and tidal waterways provided food, work, and a way of life deeply connected to the rhythms of the coast.
At the center of the painting is one small object that carries much of this history: the oyster.
The composition begins with a luminous, pearlescent surface inspired by the interior of an oyster shell. Soft pinks, creams, lavender, blue, and gold move across the painting like shifting light on coastal water. Rough passages of impasto interrupt that softness, creating a weathered surface that recalls the exterior of the shell and the demanding work of generations who harvested and processed oysters and crabs along these waterways.
That relationship between texture and light became the visual language of the painting. Roughness and luminosity. Labor and beauty. History held beneath the surface.
Through these layers, Pin Point reflects a community shaped by the marsh and honors the cultural richness preserved through family, faith, food, language, storytelling, and generations of shared knowledge.
Like the oyster shell that inspired its surface, the painting invites a closer look at what a place carries beneath what we first see.
This is the original 9 × 12-inch painting, created by hand in acrylic on canvas in 2026. As a one-of-a-kind work, there is only one original Pin Point: Pearls and Perseverance available.
Details
Original artwork
Acrylic on canvas
9 × 12 inches
2026
Signed by the artist
One of a kind
$749
Pin Point: Pearls and Perseverance is an original abstract cartography painting exploring the relationship between landscape, labor, memory, and the generations who have called Georgia’s coast home.
Created as part of the Savannah Cartography Series, the painting is inspired by Pin Point, a historic Gullah-Geechee community established along the Moon River in the 1890s by formerly enslaved African Americans and their descendants. For generations, the surrounding marshes and tidal waterways provided food, work, and a way of life deeply connected to the rhythms of the coast.
At the center of the painting is one small object that carries much of this history: the oyster.
The composition begins with a luminous, pearlescent surface inspired by the interior of an oyster shell. Soft pinks, creams, lavender, blue, and gold move across the painting like shifting light on coastal water. Rough passages of impasto interrupt that softness, creating a weathered surface that recalls the exterior of the shell and the demanding work of generations who harvested and processed oysters and crabs along these waterways.
That relationship between texture and light became the visual language of the painting. Roughness and luminosity. Labor and beauty. History held beneath the surface.
Through these layers, Pin Point reflects a community shaped by the marsh and honors the cultural richness preserved through family, faith, food, language, storytelling, and generations of shared knowledge.
Like the oyster shell that inspired its surface, the painting invites a closer look at what a place carries beneath what we first see.
This is the original 9 × 12-inch painting, created by hand in acrylic on canvas in 2026. As a one-of-a-kind work, there is only one original Pin Point: Pearls and Perseverance available.
Details
Original artwork
Acrylic on canvas
9 × 12 inches
2026
Signed by the artist
One of a kind
$749
