Signed verso. MORTALITY: N 41 29 227/ W 71 20 255 is a meditation on the artist’s own mortality. The title of the work denotes the latitude and longitude where Hall’s boat sank in 60 feet of water during a microburst while racing on Narragansett Bay. These coordinates are also visible within the work. Extreme weather phenomena like microbursts are happening more frequently as climate change becomes more severe. The printing plates are made with embossed metal bottle caps, referencing the loss of the past-a time when one could pick up sea glass and metal that would break down in the ocean. Bits of embossed plastic detritus in the plates refer to the present dilemma of plastic pollution. A recent study by URI estimates that the top 5 centimeters of the floor of Narragansett Bay now contains more than 1,000 tons of microplastics.