Artist notes: Like this sugar kelp, everything living must release at some point. A rough sea tore the kelp’s holdfast loose and it drifted into the reefs on an incoming tide. I find this to be a good reminder. Do not hold too tightly to ideas. Be open to being torn loose from habitual ways of knowing. I only want to hold a position for as long as it is working for me in the way I intended. I want not to be afraid to drift for a while before deciding where to attach my focus next.
This is the final painting in the seafloor series, for now. It is a subject and framework of exploration into my reparative nature-centric painting practice that I have held for two years. Now it is time to let go and pause ever so briefly before committing to what is next in my painting practice. This painting is not just a means of observation. It is a vessel for reflection and growth.