What does it mean to be submerged? To surrender to the currents, to dissolve into the depths, to become one with water’s eternal ebb and flow? Water is both refuge and reckoning—soothing, eroding, renewing.
Guided by the Blue Mind Theory, these paintings explore the liminal space where water and consciousness intertwine. Bodies of water exist in a state of paradox—constant yet ever-changing, familiar yet unknowable. Immersion is the only way through.
In water, there is no separation. The self dissolves into waves, rocks, sand, sky, and unseen creatures moving in the depths. The unconscious mirrors the ocean—vast, uncharted, seeking the deepest path beyond sight. Water compels, soothes, terrifies, and revives. It is movement—gentle as seaweed drifting, violent as storms shattering the shoreline. It is stillness, silence, and the gasp of breath before surrender.
Scratched lines become reeds, twigs, and marshlands; circles echo stones, sun, moon, the endless cycle of life and return. Water sustains, nourishes, and claims—its presence is absolute, its absence, devastation. It is both our origin and our undoing.
This series is a meditation on water’s power, its femininity, its infinite presence in our collective memory. It is birth, death, and the vast unknown in between. In the depths, we are nothing. And yet, submerged, we feel everything.
