MAYIM began as a painting to decorate my home for the Passover Seder celebration. I have decorated our livingroom and dining room, where we have the Seder meal, every year since my children were small. It was my way of engaging the children in the often lengthy Seder service, story and meal. The theme for Seder 2015 involved the symbols of Passover and those on the Seder Plate. One symbol on the Seder plate is salt water. We dip parsley and vegetables in the salt water to remind us of the tears of the Israelite slaves. Water is a dominant theme in the Passover story- Baby Moses is found in a basket floating in the water of the Nile, one plague turned water into blood, the tears of slaves ( of all people enslaved, not free), and the miracle of crossing the Sea of Reeds. I felt water was a powerful image for Seder and I tried to show that power in the water's movement /motion in the painting.