A friend of mine, Mary is a scuba diver and snorkeler and is headed to Asia on a diving trip in October. She has graciously ( again ) offered to take some pigeons and so I was thinking about it the other day in an odd way.  I thought hey, the earth is kind of underwater in the sense it is suspended in its atmosphere.  So I did a painting for my country of islands, Motu– showing the curvature of the earth with some bubbles of  breath rising with the slow spin…….