The sculpture plays with the double entendre of "la mer", the sea, and "la mère", the mother. With her feet in the sand, the naked woman fixes her gaze on the horizon, holding a herring in front of her belly and sex. One of the most common fish in the North Atlantic, herring saved the population of the West Coast from starvation during the two World Wars. So much herring washed ashore people could scoop it up with their bare hands. Is the resource of the sea inexhaustible? The artwork confronts us with the contemporary issues of sustainability and ecology.