Listening to mermaids whisper Painting

There is a moment inside the movement of a wave, where I lose myself; it is a brief yet boundless expanse of weightlessness, outside of normal time, both slow and fast. Aside from the benefits of exercise, especially exercise that isn’t boring repetition in a sterile environment, surfing also provides these incredibly brief yet impactful moments. Listening to mermaid’s whisper, or barrels, or time in the green room, the experience of being within the curling embrace of rushing water, dancing beside its most violent explosions and its crystal face, has many colloquial references as obscure and elusive as the experience itself. As a child, I would take off deeper and deeper trying to spend as much time in the barrel as possible… it regularly resulted with impactful moments that left holes in my wetsuit from being dragged over the reef, my mother would patch and fix my second hand wetsuits, one day she taught me to sow so I could fix the holes myself, in case she wasn’t around to do it (or so she said) The yellow is stencilled from one of my mother’s wedding gifts, a tablecloth of incredible thread work.

Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.1 W x 20.1 H x 1.6 D in

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