2024

Acrylic on canvas, 24x24 inches

This artwork is part of a series titled swimming towards the light. Swimming towards the light is a representation of being too deep underwater. It’s dark, it’s cold, it’s quiet. Your logic brain knows that it is ok, you will swim up and everything is fine. However, your survival brain panics a little about making it to the surface.

Ice cold is a companion piece to frozen solid. It is a feeling of being frozen in place, unable to move forward. It is the unknown and asks for a reflection of what is causing a freeze response. What are you afraid of? Can you step into the darkness?