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While I paint the picture underwater at a depth of 8 meters. Location El Marrajo, Islote de Lobos Fuerteventura Islas Canarias

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Ely Phenix

Spain

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 27.6 W x 19.7 H x 1.5 D in

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I dive myself with my canvas and the suitcase with paints and brushes. I lie down on the bottom about 8 meters deep in the Atlantic Ocean. My breathing is slow, I go into meditation. I observe the light, it's so different from the surface. Many rainbows are formed underwater. The water is made of infinite sparkles, like infinite crystals that reflect flashes of light. My fingers cloaked in color for the first time begin to drum on the canvas, as to create a symphony, the symphony of light. I am one with the ocean. A sea turtle comes close, it's so different and so similar to me. We look into each other's eyes, it's like meeting an extraterrestrial. I perceive in her other worlds other perspectives. When I bring the painting to the surface it's as if it were born. You enter in your house, take off your shoes, take a refreshing shower and then sit on your sofa and observe the painting hanging in front of you. Your window into the ocean. The painting smells of the sea and its surface sparkles with the salt crystals that the ocean water has created when drying. Each crystal, each brushstroke takes you on a journey through a liquid dimension. Simply relaxed on your sofa you enter in a mode of deep regenerating meditation. Every time you look at your painting you discover something new, every day a different journey. One of the most important things for me is the protection of the ocean. In fact more than 30 years of research I managed to create totally natural pigments, made of algae, plants, fruits and minerals of the Canary Islands (land where I live). Each time before diving, I mix these pigments with essential oils of various types, fatter or dry depending on the type of pigment.

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Oil on Canvas

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27.6 W x 19.7 H x 1.5 D in

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I was born premature. I was told that at birth the tissues of my body were not yet complete.  Maybe that’s why I’ve always felt like an alien. And this may be the reason why I continually keep searching for feeling myself in the womb  submerged in the amniotic fluid. For 9 months we all dive in our mother’s amniotic fluid.  And did you know that liquid is chemically almost identical to ocean water? That’s why painting underwater takes me to a state of connection and relaxation similar to the one a baby can feel inside his mother. After all, 80% of our body is water, so the connection among my body, the sea and painting is very different from the one I feel painting in my studio. Today we live in an absolute disconnection from nature, and are impregnated with the urban and digital. So with my work I want to make people aware of the importance of connecting with nature,  to feel the sea through a new and different experience. The importance of being one with the ocean. 

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