A person dressed as a mermaid lying on the beach next to a rusty, broken boat under an overcast sky.
Two people dressed in eclectic costumes, one with bright red hair and makeup, the other wearing goggles, a helmet, and makeup, posing outdoors.
A human hand and a child’s hand touching sandy beach
A performer dressed as Ariel from The Little Mermaid lying on a clear platform, extending her arms forward, with a blue background and stage lighting.
A plastic doll with blue eyes and blonde hair lying face-up in a shallow, rocky stream, wearing a dirty white shirt and diaper, surrounded by rocks and water.
A person wearing a blue t-shirt with a printed image of the Statue of Liberty in blue tones.
A person dressed as a mermaid sitting amidst ocean trash on a beach, holding a toy doll, surrounded by scattered plastic and debris.
A person dressed as Ariel from The Little Mermaid, with bright orange hair, a blue top, and green arm-length gloves, holding a colorful umbrella and posing excitedly in front of a white backdrop.
A woman in a blue dress standing on a rocky beach, holding a small, shell-like object against her chest. She wears a crown and a necklace, with a rake in her right hand. The background shows a shoreline with moss-covered rocks and a distant city skyline under a partly cloudy sky.
A person with orange hair, wearing colorful beads and turquoise dress, reclining on a surface covered with green plastic, holding a glass with blue liquid, with a white backdrop and a pillow in the background.
A woman with bright red hair, glittery makeup, and a vibrant costume is sitting outdoors near water with green tropical plants in the background, holding a bottle of alcohol.
Siren Jones, Wynwood Walls (2015)
Siren Jones is a virtual meditation on the ways that mermaids and descendants of mermaids are confronting the phenomena of extinction, our massive pathological single use consumption, and the seemingly irreversible dilemma of massive plastics pollution in our planet’s oceans. We do this from a perspective of radical eco-feminist sea beings that are straight up sick of patriarchy, racist and homophobic myths, fear of biodiversity and the failed capitalist experiment.
Siren Jones is a mermaid descendant. Born on the Pacific, that natal-tidal pull keeps the keel of her hips leaning west, even though she lives like a mangrove root anchored to the Florida peninsula. Her formative years were spent canoeing on Puget Sound, nicking her fingertips on clam digs, and learning the taste of raw oysters shucked with a stolen hunting knife. She treats every sea creature with respectful care, knowing her bones were built from the ocean’s mineral flesh and that brine runs in our veins. The ocean—our ocean—is the planet’s amniotic fluid and a mother-goddess to all.
That’s why Siren Jones needs you: to protect and restore the waters that made us, to defend biodiversity and coastal communities, and to keep the songs of the sea alive for the next generation.