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“I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
― Lana Del Rey

“It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

To speak on my captivation and deep love for the sea is to mirror the heart of most women - we are salt, water and air, overflowing with storm and raging depths, utterly held (always) under the influence of moon.

This painting began its origins with Andromeda, whose myth echoes the sin of her Mother, Kassiopeia and her hubris at extolling Andromeda's beauty, thus angering Poseidon, who sends the sea monster Cetus to ravage Andromeda as divine punishment. Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster, but is saved from death by Perseus.

But something did not add up.

"Andromeda" is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα which means "ruler of men" - rather odd for a woman who seemed to be caught helpless in her own destiny. I fell quite suddenly under the spell of this mythos, certain that the Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic hieros gamos (sacred marriage) was mistold. In my connection to her, I felt that the entire myth had been woven without her involvement or voice. And that the deeper divine marriage was between her soul and the sea - for both are, in their ways, the rulers of men.

And so I asked, and she replied:

"I am the power of all
elements. Where air meets water.
My heart is the fire of lightning,
the roaring beat of thunder.
The storm in which
all elements converge
in wild chaotic dance.

I have no need of words -

the ocean is my voice.
the storm is my soul

As all women are."

And so, as I've chose to depict her, she is - at the very least - the ruler of her own damn self, with the moon illuminating her as both halo and guide; the waves her garments, casting forth in elemental power her will indomitable of frothing water and storm, all of which are held to and by her.

As all women are. Returning to the depths of all that we are.


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This listing is for one 4X6 print matted on a 5X7 acid-free archival mat board. Ready to frame in any standard 5X7 frame, and perfectly sized for an altar or other sacred space to imbue it with the reminder of the magic of the sea.



Please allow 1 to 2 weeks delivery.