Silent Deep Light suspends the viewer in a moment of rare stillness, that quality of light that exists just beneath the ocean's surface, diffuse and directionless, neither day nor dark. A light blue aqueous atmosphere holds a softly glowing orb, dissolving at its edges into scattered bubbles and ellipses, as though the water itself is breathing.
From the sediment below, forms rise, tangled, wiry, threaded with warm amber from strips of recycled paper. Fragile structures reaching upward toward that distant luminescence. They are neither plant nor creature, but something in between: life at the threshold, persistent and unhurried.
The work speaks of deep patience. Of the light that finds its way even where no one is watching.
- Subject Matter: Landscape
- Collections: Drowned Gardens of Silence