Li Westerlund focuses her art work on photography, capturing expressions of the sea and oceanic lifeforms more from a painter's perspective than from the traditional nature photographer's approach. She also focuses her work on abstract expressions in her often introspective investigations to capture that which has no structure.

"I turn to photography and aesthetics as a means to stay grounded in an environment rife with high pressure and demands, threatening to take me off balance and overshadow my creative spirit."

Li Westerlund came to the United States from Sweden for the first time a little over a decade ago.

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