Mother
We’re all born to broken people on their most honest day of living,
and since that first breath we’ll need grace that we’ve never given…
Many of the pieces in this series feature giant sea creatures, inspired by the film Ponyo. The life cycle of the anglerfish, its adaptations to the hostility of the deep ocean environs, and the Disney trope of maternal death or absence (Finding Nemo, the Little Mermaid, etc.) all found their way into my process for this painting.
Mother (Listener x The Tempest) is a 9x12-inch mixed media on paper. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish and sold with a white mat.
We make every attempt to represent colors as accurately as possible, but be aware that differences among screens and paint pigments may result in variations. Please read our Shipping and Return Policy before purchasing.
We’re all born to broken people on their most honest day of living,
and since that first breath we’ll need grace that we’ve never given…
Many of the pieces in this series feature giant sea creatures, inspired by the film Ponyo. The life cycle of the anglerfish, its adaptations to the hostility of the deep ocean environs, and the Disney trope of maternal death or absence (Finding Nemo, the Little Mermaid, etc.) all found their way into my process for this painting.
Mother (Listener x The Tempest) is a 9x12-inch mixed media on paper. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish and sold with a white mat.
We make every attempt to represent colors as accurately as possible, but be aware that differences among screens and paint pigments may result in variations. Please read our Shipping and Return Policy before purchasing.
We’re all born to broken people on their most honest day of living,
and since that first breath we’ll need grace that we’ve never given…
Many of the pieces in this series feature giant sea creatures, inspired by the film Ponyo. The life cycle of the anglerfish, its adaptations to the hostility of the deep ocean environs, and the Disney trope of maternal death or absence (Finding Nemo, the Little Mermaid, etc.) all found their way into my process for this painting.
Mother (Listener x The Tempest) is a 9x12-inch mixed media on paper. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish and sold with a white mat.
We make every attempt to represent colors as accurately as possible, but be aware that differences among screens and paint pigments may result in variations. Please read our Shipping and Return Policy before purchasing.
Water is rife with tension; it is the source of creation and destruction. The literary canon is filled with characters who tangle with the power of water and its gods: from Odysseus and Prospero, to the films of James Cameron and Hayao Miyazaki.
This series — The Third Eye of the Storm — began as a meditation on my fear of drowning; I began working while watching a gender-bent adaptation of The Tempest starring Helen Mirren as Prospera. The primary relationship of the play suddenly mother-daughter, I was thrust into an unexpected tempest of my own, processing my evolving relationship as my mother’s caregiver after years of navigating this stormy relationship.
Water is the source of life; so, too, our mothers. The ocean’s dance with the moon is one that has been worshiped and celebrated through ritual and art for millennia. That tension – the pull between the ocean and the moon, between life and death, creation and destruction, mothers and their children, vengeance and love–is the source of this body of work.
The quoted lyrics in the product description are from the song “Wooden Heart” by Listener.
