I was fifteen, on a family vacation in the Caribbean, on one of those Jolly Roger pirate cruises that I now recognize was basically a booze cruise for the adults on board. I was a painfully shy kid, not much less so as a teenager, and when the head “pirate” called for a volunteer to walk the plank, my hand uncharacteristically shot straight up before I could think twice about it.
They took me below deck, tied a loose blindfold over my eyes, and had me hold a rope behind my back so it looked like my hands were bound. Then came the story: a stowaway found on board, and the whole boat chanting "walk the plank" as I was led out, a pirate with a sword at my back, until I reached the edge and was pushed into the ocean.
This was years before I developed a fear of sharks that's kept me mostly out of the water since. That day, I felt no fear, only fierceness, the fierceness of a girl who raised her hand before she could think twice. Looking back, it feels like the first glimpse of a woman who would keep stepping into visibility, not for attention, but because that's how she'd learn to move past her fears and live a bigger life. It would take me years to understand that same fierceness is still in me, that I can call on it whenever fear creeps in and threatens to hold me back. Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is look to who we were as children and let them show us how to live more courageously.
This pair carries the fierceness of that moment, walking to the edge and choosing to jump. Bright copper and gold move through both pieces like sunlight hitting the surface of the water. Blue moves through in waves, pale and glassy in places, deepening into teal in others, the way the ocean shifts color the further out you go. Blush and cream open up the space between, and touches of deep green and deep brown settle into the edges, like the last thing you'd notice before going under.
This pair comes from a single palette, worked twice, and sold together as the set it was made to be.
**Please note that the colors in this piece shift and change depending on the light of the room it lives in, as well as the reflective quality of the metallic and pearlescent pigments. Photography captures one moment in one light - in your home, this piece will reveal itself differently throughout the day.
Medium: Mixed media on watercolor paper - high flow acrylics, acrylic inks, liquid watercolors, metallic and pearlescent pigments
Works dimensions: 14.5" H x 18.5" W each
Framed dimensions: 25.125" H x 21.125" W each
Framing: Shown with white frame and white mat to allow the artwork to remain the focus. Should you prefer a different frame option, please submit a request via the Contact page.
Price includes framing.
This piece arrives infused with Reiki energy and made with intention from beginning to end.
I was fifteen, on a family vacation in the Caribbean, on one of those Jolly Roger pirate cruises that I now recognize was basically a booze cruise for the adults on board. I was a painfully shy kid, not much less so as a teenager, and when the head “pirate” called for a volunteer to walk the plank, my hand uncharacteristically shot straight up before I could think twice about it.
They took me below deck, tied a loose blindfold over my eyes, and had me hold a rope behind my back so it looked like my hands were bound. Then came the story: a stowaway found on board, and the whole boat chanting "walk the plank" as I was led out, a pirate with a sword at my back, until I reached the edge and was pushed into the ocean.
This was years before I developed a fear of sharks that's kept me mostly out of the water since. That day, I felt no fear, only fierceness, the fierceness of a girl who raised her hand before she could think twice. Looking back, it feels like the first glimpse of a woman who would keep stepping into visibility, not for attention, but because that's how she'd learn to move past her fears and live a bigger life. It would take me years to understand that same fierceness is still in me, that I can call on it whenever fear creeps in and threatens to hold me back. Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is look to who we were as children and let them show us how to live more courageously.
This pair carries the fierceness of that moment, walking to the edge and choosing to jump. Bright copper and gold move through both pieces like sunlight hitting the surface of the water. Blue moves through in waves, pale and glassy in places, deepening into teal in others, the way the ocean shifts color the further out you go. Blush and cream open up the space between, and touches of deep green and deep brown settle into the edges, like the last thing you'd notice before going under.
This pair comes from a single palette, worked twice, and sold together as the set it was made to be.
**Please note that the colors in this piece shift and change depending on the light of the room it lives in, as well as the reflective quality of the metallic and pearlescent pigments. Photography captures one moment in one light - in your home, this piece will reveal itself differently throughout the day.
Medium: Mixed media on watercolor paper - high flow acrylics, acrylic inks, liquid watercolors, metallic and pearlescent pigments
Works dimensions: 14.5" H x 18.5" W each
Framed dimensions: 25.125" H x 21.125" W each
Framing: Shown with white frame and white mat to allow the artwork to remain the focus. Should you prefer a different frame option, please submit a request via the Contact page.
Price includes framing.
This piece arrives infused with Reiki energy and made with intention from beginning to end.
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