Seashells is folk art with an infusion of fine arts formality. Michael G. Dean deconstructs and arranges the characteristics of language to capture a more precisely symbolic experience of one man's journey across borders-geographical, cultural, and personal. From the shadow of a broken family, to road trips, war crimes, sex and beauty, the stories within are visceral and showcase the importance of the space between all matter of adjacent things-where the connection breaks down, or unexpectedly evolves.