Kelp art thrives on the West Coast. Videographers Ana Blanco and Natasha Benjamin plunge into exhausting swells at every opportunity to film the “sequoias of the sea”; ceramicist Leila Al ...

Through art, we are reminded to stop, admire and care for this living, breathing part of the planet. It’s why I keep returning, camera in hand, to dive again and again, to capture the kelp and ...

While free diving to photograph kelp forests along the California coastline, I’ve viscerally felt the consequences of finiteness as a living being—the fleeting nature of a single breath ...

She hauls them back to her studio where she paints images of them, or arranges them into their own art. But as she scoured the beaches, she began to notice that once ubiquitous strands of kelp ...

The mounds of kelp washed ashore Orange County beaches by recent storms is a visual not so common in recent years. The brown leafy algae had been under attack from a non-native species known as ...