Engaging with themes of biodiversity, climate change, ocean health and maritime history, Oceanus, a commissioned painting by the Mystic Seaport Museum, explores human impacts on the ocean throughout history. At the surface of the ocean, a timeline of vessels representing human activity over the centuries, based largely on ships and models in the Mystic Seaport Museum collection, culminates in a tsunami wave.

Beneath the waves teem a threatened world of marine species, telling the stories of human exploitation and interventions in the ocean, from whale-hunting to fisheries depletion to the threats posed by seabed mining. The original painting was adapted for CGR-H2O and this site-specific installation in 2024.