The Bayou Mermaid
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Width
85 cm
Height
135 cm
Depth
5 cm
Weight
6 kg
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The Bayou Mermaid is a surreal landscape painting that explores the boundary between the visible and invisible worlds. At the center of the composition, a translucent mermaid figure rests between two realms—half submerged in the water and half emerging into the open air. Her transparent form blends with the surrounding landscape, suggesting a spirit-like presence caught between reality and imagination, the conscious and the unknown. Originally commissioned as a personal artwork, The Bayou Mermaid carries an unusual story of its own. Created for a client whose passion was diving, he ultimately never claimed the finished piece and the painting became an unexpected symbol of absence, unfinished journeys, and the unpredictabilty of life. The client´s story and the reason he never collected the work is also peculiar: upon completion of the work, the client stole a large sum of money and was said to have fled to Belize.
Painting
Ecofeminist paintings of the unseen threads of consciousness.
My work moves between two themes: the spiritual exploration of human existence through a mythical lens, and an ecofeminist, socio-political response to the environmental and systemic violence shaping our world today. My ongoing Goddess Portrait series is rooted in archetypes of different goddess mythologies around the world where I seek to reveal the hidden layers of identity, resilience, and consciousness, elevating real women into portals of divine power manifested in human form. These works seek to honor the sacred within the human and mundane, bridging personal history with collective memory through symbolic language. Parallel to this, my practice also confronts the trauma inherent in our current systems where I address the pressures of capitalism and the environmental degradation experienced as well as the emotional and spiritual costs of a world which is out of balance. Together, these two artistic explorations form a single inquiry: how do we thrive, transmute, and create meaning in the midst of our perpetually changing world?
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