“Ascend” Painting

This painting is part of my “Water Parallels” series. In my oil paintings, I express the feelings of being an outsider, an spectator; as I look mostly from above,” from the outside”. The longing to belong and the melancholy of what we miss. Feeling free and isolated at the same time. Water also provides a metaphor for the “lenses” through which we see reality. Just like refraction changes the shapes of what lies beneath; our “refractions” are determined by our experiences, our culture, gender, education etc. Water, the pleasure of being inside it, the colors, the light are my attempt to keep connected to my roots, but also to make that human connection with the viewer. We might come from different places, but inside, where our feelings live, we are so similar. This particular painting was created during the pandemic period in which the breakthrough of the vaccines had happen but they were still not available, we could almost “breathe” but we were not out of the deep yet.