Fish Happy In The Coral Reefs
Personal memory by Daphne B.
2014 CE • Japan
Scuba diving with my dad and seeing coral reefs. They weren't damaged and the fish were happy. We got to explore the ocean. Now, it's very hard to find a healthy reef. I hope we can come back to that.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: Keiya, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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