Oceanus Blue
Founder's Story
"I am Water Born"
My Grandmother Reed ( below) and my mother ( with my baby picture- below bottom) were such an influence on my deep love of nature , the oceans, art, and photography. The two biggest female influences in my life had combined talents as creators, and were highly intelligent leaders, and artists in their communities, as well as passionate lovers of nature and especially the ocean. My Grandmother Reed was an accomplished painter from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, attended Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and founded paradise living in Brewster-Cape Cod, where she lived on the ocean, and painted many watercolors and oil paintings based on the famous ocean landscapes of Cape Cod. Her work considered emotionality, bold color choices and expressive brushwork, much like Abstract Expressionism. My Grandmother invited notable artists and us grandchildren to visit her every summer the summers where I fondly remember her reaching behind me and holding my paint brushes in my hands as she guided me into my first strokes on a canvas as she held me with wooden braces attached to her arms, her arms in pain and deformity from severe lifelong chronic arthritis. Here skipping along the ocean, my Grandfather, an art professor, Documentary Filmmaker and Photographer showed me at a young age the art of photography as we walked out into the sea looking to take photographs of horseshoe crabs, sunsets and nature. . My grandparents own influence in the arts and guiding artists led to their art collection yielding a historic record high sales level for art collection at Christie’s Auction House in Hong Kong.
Life was not so easy for any of the accomplished Artistic and creative Women in my family, especially my Mother.
A true miracle of birth came for me when my Mother found out she was pregnant with me and packed up and left her job as a photographer and writer for a science magazine in Chicago, and headed for Rhode Island, aptly called “The Ocean State'' for its highest number of miles of oceanfront coastline per square mile in the United States. Here she settled into a country house up a grassy island dirt road with thousands of acres surrounding, and rivers and brooks and a short drive to the ocean. She found out she had cancer when she was in her last trimester and despite the doctors urging her to abort me, she decided to continue to have me and held off on chemotherapy and radiation treatment until after I was born, putting her own life at risk. I was there floating in her water, safe from harm's way and the trauma she was going through fighting cancer and preparing to deliver me.
Oceanus Blue
Founder's Story
"I am Water Born"
M y grandmother Reed ( below left) and my mother ( with my baby picture- below-right) were such an influence on my deep love of nature , the oceans, art, and photography. The two biggest female influences in my life had combined talents as creators,were highly intelligent leaders, artists in their communities,and lovers of nature and especially the ocean.t. My grandmother Reed was an accomplished painter from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, attended Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and founded paradise living in Brewster-Cape Cod, where she lived on the ocean, and painted many watercolors and oil paintings based on the famous ocean landscapes of Cape Cod. Her work considered emotionality, bold color choices and expressive brushwork, much like Abstract Expressionism. My grandmother . invited notable artists and us grandchildren to visit her every summer the summers where I fondly remember her reaching behind me and holding my paint brushes in my hands as she guided me into my first strokes on a canvas as she held me with wooden braces attached to her arms, her arms in pain and deformity from severe lifelong chronic arthritis.. Here skipping along the ocean, my grandfather, an art professor, documentary filmmaker and photographer showed me at a young age the art of photography as we walked out into the sea looking to take photographs of horseshoe crabs, sunsets and nature. . My grandparents own influence in the arts and guiding artists led to their art collection yielding a historic record high sales level for art collection at Christie’s Auction House in Hong Kong.
But things were not so easy for any of the accomplished artistic and creative women in my family, especially my mother. A true miracle of birth came for me when my mother found out she was pregnant with me and packed up and left her job as a photographer and writer for a science magazine in Chicago, and headed for Rhode Island, aptly called “The Ocean State'' for its highest number of miles of oceanfront coastline per square mile in the United States. Here she settled into a country house up a grassy island dirt road with thousands of acres surrounding, and rivers and brooks and a short drive to the ocean. She found out she had cancer when she was in her last trimester and despite the doctors urging her to abort me, she decided to continue to have me and held off on chemotherapy and radiation treatment until after I was born, putting her own life at risk. I was there floating in her water, safe from harm's way and the trauma she was going through fighting cancer and preparing to deliver me.
Our mother was a real dreamer and nature lover, and part of the late hippie “return to mother earth” homesteading movement and while pregnant with me, she read books on planting and planted a garden where much food came out of by the time of my birth in September, the month of harvesting in New England. My father arrived just in time from Chicago upon hearing he had a new born son, and arrived for a fall harvest in the garden after he transplanted out of the City of Chicago, for a new found life living as a homesteader in a forest in the country. Quite a change from an urban landscape to a dirt road path that led up to our home. While my mother was in the hospital getting treated for cancer after my birth, my father with his first son, found his way to the garden to feed me fresh squash and pumpkins, corn, beets, cucumbers, and many fresh vegetables my mother had planted earlier that year, mushing them up and filling up empty baby glass jars which he fed me until my mother arrived from the hospital months later when the first snow came. He spent 3 months feeding me, never having had to take care of a child before his whole life. He hiked up into the woods to build a stone well around a water spring which gushed fresh water out and I spent many years with my brothers and sisters unclogging the well of frogs and many animals we shared our fresh water with in nature.
Mother raised bees, geese, and sheep, horses, german shepherds and many other pets and she got all of what would be her children of 8 into caring for animals, even making a sustainable fish farm on our property with the help of the Army Corps of Engineers and a grant she applied for. The fish stocked there by the fisheries department, were “our friends” and everyday after school I would run out to see them in the lake we had built down in the fields below our home. Mother impressed upon me not to even kill a spider or bee, they were all part of the circle of the miracle life, something all of our mothers know maybe better than anyone on the earth.
Mother’s immense compassion for nature, the oceans and every living creature and plant, cultivated in me a love of nature and respect for what she called “mother earth” and “the great spirit” that created it all. And I had no idea I would be led into a career where for the past 20 years I have gotten to film so often in and around the oceans, and rainforests, for television shows, surf television, and documentaries I produced from my birth in the “Ocean State'' to travels immersed in documentary style filmmaking to the greatest oceans and rainforests around the world. Both my mother and grandmother are now gone , and it was only after this loss, that I realized how I had gotten here. Every bit of the impact of my mother and grandmother childhood experience and love of the oceans and nature, art and writing, led me here. When my mother passed away in Connecticut in 2020, her last wishes for me, her son, and all of us siblings, was to keep protecting our earth, the oceans and the littlest creature on our planet. So perfect that now on my birthday in 2021, I launched this project in honor and memory of a great mother, photographer, writer , nature lover and giver of life who risked her life for my miraculous birth, and so she deeply who touched and made me take off in my passions of nature and especially the oceans.
When I was just five, I asked her how come the world was so messed up with wars and many issues, and she told me , “If women were allowed to truly lead and co create, for sure we would not have such problems as they are deeply connected to water and all of creation”.. Thank you for passing this wisdom on mother, and the torch you lit and gift Mom and now I will gift it along to many others on my journey. And invite especially women, their children, to lead us all into restoring the world and its oceans, after carrying us in their water. I hope that this platform will become one where young and especially female artists along with men, have a platform to help promote their art and deep devotion to the earth and especially the oceans.
Our mother was a real dreamer and nature lover, and part of the late hippie “return to mother earth” homesteading movement and while pregnant with me, she read books on planting and planted a garden where much food came out of by the time of my birth in September, the month of harvesting in New England. My father arrived just in time from Chicago upon hearing he had a new born son, and arrived for a fall harvest in the garden after he transplanted out of the City of Chicago, for a new found life living as a homesteader in a forest in the country. Quite a change from an urban landscape to a dirt road path that led up to our home. While my mother was in the hospital getting treated for cancer after my birth, my father with his first son, found his way to the garden to feed me fresh squash and pumpkins, corn, beets, cucumbers, and many fresh vegetables my mother had planted earlier that year, mushing them up and filling up empty baby glass jars which he fed me until my mother arrived from the hospital months later when the first snow came. He spent 3 months feeding me, never having had to take care of a child before his whole life. He hiked up into the woods to build a stone well around a water spring which gushed fresh water out and I spent many years with my brothers and sisters unclogging the well of frogs and many animals we shared our fresh water with in nature.
Mother raised bees, geese, and sheep, horses, german shepherds and many other pets and she got all of what would be her children of 8 into caring for animals, even making a sustainable fish farm on our property with the help of the Army Corps of Engineers and a grant she applied for. The fish stocked there by the fisheries department, were “our friends” and everyday after school I would run out to see them in the lake we had built down in the fields below our home. Mother impressed upon me not to even kill a spider or bee, they were all part of the circle of the miracle life, something all of our mothers know maybe better than anyone on the earth.
Mother’s immense compassion for nature, the oceans and every living creature and plant, cultivated in me a love of nature and respect for what she called “mother earth” and “the great spirit” that created it all. And I had no idea I would be led into a career where for the past 20 years I have gotten to film so often in and around the oceans, and rainforests, for television shows, surf television, and documentaries I produced from my birth in the “Ocean State'' to travels immersed in documentary style filmmaking to the greatest oceans and rainforests around the world. Both my mother and grandmother are now gone , and it was only after this loss, that I realized how I had gotten here. Every bit of the impact of my mother and grandmother childhood experience and love of the oceans and nature, art and writing, led me here. When my mother passed away in Connecticut in 2020, her last wishes for me, her son, and all of us siblings, was to keep protecting our earth, the oceans and the littlest creature on our planet. So perfect that now on my birthday in 2021, I launched this project in honor and memory of a great mother, photographer, writer , nature lover and giver of life who risked her life for my miraculous birth, and so she deeply who touched and made me take off in my passions of nature and especially the oceans.
When I was just five, I asked her how come the world was so messed up with wars and many issues, and she told me , “If women were allowed to truly lead and co create, for sure we would not have such problems as they are deeply connected to water and all of creation”.. Thank you for passing this wisdom on mother, and the torch you lit and gift Mom and now I will gift it along to many others on my journey. And invite especially women, their children, to lead us all into restoring the world and its oceans, after carrying us in their water. I hope that this platform will become one where young and especially female artists along with men, have a platform to help promote their art and deep devotion to the earth and especially the oceans.
- We provide our NFT technology and NFT platform auction to host select and private curated art projects that can help raise money and awareness for ocean campaigns.
- We provide our global media network in television, media, social media, and digital media to help support awareness for both the artist and non profit ocean organization in the NFT “Drop”.
- We donate a significant portion of all NFT sales to the non profit groups we partner with, as well as to help sustain artists working to create careers around ocean sustainability. Over 67% of every dollar goes to sustainability of artists and the oceans.
- Every credit card transaction we donate partial proceeds to carbon offsetting through our credit card processor stripe.com
- Oceanusblue seeks to partner on tech platforms which are committed to sustainability and have a plan to help reduce carbon emissions and use alternative energy resources in the minting of NFT art assets.
- Introducing ART projects and ocean causes to venture capital, and investment groups who are conscious ocean supporters.
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