Sea of Stories

"Swishy Fish" 2021, monotype and collage, 8" x 10"

I've been ocean obsessed lately. After a stir-crazy covid year, my sweetie and I decided to learn to scuba dive!! I just finished my open water certification in Key Largo but I've been picturing the crazy creatures all year. Pelicans, sanderlings, turtles and every kind of fish! They are all telling stories in my studio these days.

As I was dreaming of tropical reefs, my artist friend Caroline Chen started a series of oil paintings based on Wuthering Heights. Now there's a story for you!
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To complete the synchronicity, another studio artist friend shared a book with us that we had never heard of -  Salmon Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories. As we both read through it, this passage caught our creative eyes...

  

“Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.”

  

Thus was born our Sea of Stories exhibit. Come see it!

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Sea of Stories is on view September 3-26, 2021 at The Delaware Contemporary.
You are invited to an opening reception on Friday, Sept. 10 from 5-8 pm.
For more information about the exhibit and event, click here.

To view work from the show online, click here. Please email me at [email protected] if you are interested in purchasing work from the exhibit.