What Did the Deep Sea Say

Assembly presents "What Did the Deep Sea Say” by New York-­based visual artist Sara Macel. This NFT collection explores the private lives of women dealing with their own unique circumstances at different points in time while swimming in the same waters. "What Did the Deep Sea Say” was inspired by a suitcase full of photographs belonging to Macel’s deceased grand­mother that unearthed an unknown chapter in her family history that led to Hollywood, Florida. In this seaside town that appears lost in time, Macel retraces her grandmother’s footsteps while also photographing the land­scape, her mother, and herself. By interspers­ing medium-­format color photographs with her grandmother’s black-­and­-white images from the 1940s and her mother’s color snap­shots from the 1970s, a visual conversation emerges.