Every Ocean Hughes is a transdisciplinary artist working in performance, photography, video, and text. Hughes’s work has evolved over time from a practice involving geometric abstraction, to a direct engagement with the rituals, practices, and materials of death and dying. Early in life Hughes became acquainted with death early in life due to the death of a childhood friend at age nine, and the loss of a best friend at 15. Caring for their grandmother’s end of life and palliative care, came at a moment when they were having doubts about their art practice. Hughes changed their name in tribute to their grandmother’s love of the sea. Embracing the taboo topic and the processes around it, Hughes has pivoted to death as the focus of their art practice, after attending an end-of-life doula training in 2018.