Renewed Views

Wave 4 - Wearing Water. The 4th wave in this series from 2012. The subject now has power over the flood waters that previously overwhelmed her. Unlike Waves 1- 3, she stares directly at the viewer. She rises gracefully, on gentle waves that she controls, she is wearing the water as a beautiful badge. She is transformed. A sense of balance is beginning to emerge from the complex tapestry of memories that the water carries. Yet, looking closely, one could also see disconnected

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This is blog 3 of 6 discussing an art series I started in 2012. Read parts 1 and 2 and here. I completed Wave 3, The Healing Wave just a couple of days after the 2nd wave. After a period of feeling particularly crushed by a romantic break up, I had just begun to realize that no relationship or external idea was going to 'fix' my 'brokenness.' I knew how to live in the past but building a future was frightening. Our familiar monsters seem less harmful than the possibilities of