The Pond Heard Everything
These sirens look like they’ve been crying beautifully for several centuries.
Faces rise from thick pinks, pale greens, bruised blues and scraped ivory while long strands of hair pour toward the water. Tears, leaves and reflections begin to share the same surface. A dark fish appears at the edge as if the whole pond is listening.
The emotional exposure recalls Marlene Dumas, while the restless merging of body and landscape has something in common with Cecily Brown and de Kooning. Forms do not stay neatly separated for long.
That slipping between body, water and myth is a kind of metamorphosis. One form appears to become another without a hard border. The faces nearly disappear into the pond, leaving the viewer to decide where portrait ends and environment begins.
FUN FACT
In early Greek art, sirens were often depicted as birds with women’s heads; the familiar mermaid-like version developed much later.
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