In Sweden’s archipelago, over 300,000 leisure boats still run on old two-stroke engines, spilling a third of their fuel straight into the sea. To show the damage we can’t see, we let the sea paint its own story.

Blank canvases were placed in oil-slicked waters, turning pollution into hauntingly beautiful art. Each piece was geo-tagged and exhibited in The Sea’s Gallery, a digital map revealing where every spill was found, making the sea’s navigation itself the artist behind each painting.

A live floating event held in the heart of the archipelago, surrounded by the very waters we set out to protect.
Each painting sold funded the removal of one old engine from circulation.

Turning pollution into proof and art into action.