I write what I see, I paint what I am - Etel Adnan

I started producing these works of poured acrylic with foreground images in oil the first few days of the lockdown when we were still trying to wrap our heads around the scale and the scope of the pandemic. I am still making them today, when we are above water, yet still forging the right path forward towards regaining control of our lives and understanding how this common experience affected us; a species sharing one vulnerable planet. 

These paintings exist in water; in a flow of feelings and a wave of events. They illustrate a state of mind that still does not have the time to catch its breath. They ebb and they flow with the growing realization that life has forever been altered. They each ask the question: Which way will this tide take us? Yet as a collection they are pleading: We are all born survivors, and life is never a straight line. Let’s navigate these bends gracefully.