Laura Symes, Ocean of Stars (SEASCAPE 2026)

At Narooma Beach, on the coast of NSW, the Milky Way blazes luminous above the shoreline. Dust lanes and starlight carve across the sky, their brilliance mirrored in the wet sand.

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