Agar and salt

The migratory journey of the humpback whale from the South Pole to the warm tropical waters off the Ecuadorian coast elevates it to an icon of the landscape and a metaphor for the journey. “The Ancestor’s Tale” presents the fable of a whale that, after a long period submerged in the ocean, has become immobile and covered in substances that solidify into the shape of the creature that once inhabited those waters. Over time, the animal’s body has disappeared, leaving only an inverted fossil as evidence of its existence