After the Oceanside Pier fire in April, artist Marisa DeLuca gathered fistfuls of charred wood from the beach — charcoal she could mix with oil paint. With the resultant pigment, her city is now both inspiration and material in her art.
“My work has always been kind of a love letter to Oceanside and to the ancestors of Oceanside. And when that fire happened, it really put an exclamation point on the rapid change in the region,” DeLuca said…