Alga is a nostalgic vision, of simple fronds and sea-weeds fluttering through the shallow waters of tidepools at the shore. Glittering threads illuminate the pattern from within like the opalescent curl of an abalone shell, capturing and reflecting the sun’s rays from beneath the waves. Each sinuous chamber contains a single tendril, recalling the pressed kelp specimens collected by Victorian botanists, who, in the half-light of dawn, were summoned to the ocean’s edge by Nature herself.