"Achepohl talks about Venice's famous resort, the Lido - its beaches, the sand, the ebb and flow of tides, the shells retrieved - as the genesis for his impressions.... smaller more personal vistas immediate vision just at one's feet - a few shells just revealed by the last wash of tide or the shallow water caught in a slight depression in the sand... in these small vistas he has captured the transitory magic of the beach for anyone who has spent time at the shore and walked along that delicate juncture of sea and just-firm sand. ... and Achepohl has captured one very quioxotic bit of this tidal world, the kelp .. these images ask you to pause, to remember." David Kiehl, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC