With feet planted in the shallows of the Pacific Ocean, American photographer and filmmaker Erik Madigan Heck captures the rolling waves of Venice Beach, California, in today’s Super 8 tribute to Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester. Entitled The Sea, the meditative short features a narration by artist Lawrence Weiner, whose baritone recital of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Marianne Moore’s “A Grave” adds a tender note to a collaboration started in 2011. “I had made four films in the past as gifts to Ann and this seemed like the appropriate finale to that series,” says Heck, who has shot for Comme des Garçons, Valentino and Mary Katrantzou. “The pieces came together in the past few months, coincidentally just as Ann announced her departure from fashion.” Heck first approached the post-minimalist vanguard Weiner to pose for him wearing Demeulemeester’s Fall 12 collection for his “Artist As Muse” series for A Magazine Curated By, connecting the iconic Antwerp Six designer with one of her favorite artists. The New York-based photographer later captured Weiner’s mural “Iron & Gold in the Air Dust & Smoke on the Ground” in his third film for Demeulemeester. “Ann showed me that fashion could function as an art form,” explains Heck, founder of publications Nomenus Quarterly and the forthcoming No Photos Please. “Growing up in Minneapolis, Lawrence had a large text mural on the side of the Walker Art Center, which we drove past on my way to school. It was one of the first works of art that I internalized daily before I even understood it as art.” And what will Demeulemeester fill her time with now she has departed her beloved career. “I love my gardens,” she says. “They are alive, so there is always something to do.”