Pearl Diver Painting

I started this painting with the query, “Can you hold both at the same time?” Meaning, can you be with the paradoxes that abound within yourself? If we are to hold our paradoxes within the single vessel of the self, we must become divers and go inward and experience the intertwining tensions. The treasure, the “pearl,” is the full circle realization in answering “yes” to the initial question, requiring that you expand yourself in order to hold both—like the layering of nacre on a pearl. The floating collection of shapes feels as if fashioned from pieces of a shipwreck—a large chunk of wood, a wire basket, bits of sheer and striped textiles. The arrangement could be a floating sea creature, the shapes at the bottom gathered into a sort of fishtail. Often elegant and soft in real life, many alluring water beings sport venom or spikes (Can you be a tender human and also accept your anger?). The Pearl Diver, suspended on the light cream background intentionally clear of markings, invites one to view it as a curiosity.

Painting:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:48 W x 72 H x 2 D in

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