What the Water Gave Me

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What can I say? Florence + the Machine finds its way into a lot of my work. This piece (and the song by the same title) is additionally inspired by a painting by Frida Kahlo, a badass disabled bisexual painter. I didn’t know that when I started the piece, but I knew that when I finished it. Serendipity and all that.

What the Water Gave Me (Florence + the Machine x The Tempest) is a 9x12-inch mixed media on paper. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish and sold with a white mat.

We make every attempt to represent colors as accurately as possible, but be aware that differences among screens and paint pigments may result in variations. Please read our Shipping and Return Policy before purchasing.

What can I say? Florence + the Machine finds its way into a lot of my work. This piece (and the song by the same title) is additionally inspired by a painting by Frida Kahlo, a badass disabled bisexual painter. I didn’t know that when I started the piece, but I knew that when I finished it. Serendipity and all that.

What the Water Gave Me (Florence + the Machine x The Tempest) is a 9x12-inch mixed media on paper. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish and sold with a white mat.

We make every attempt to represent colors as accurately as possible, but be aware that differences among screens and paint pigments may result in variations. Please read our Shipping and Return Policy before purchasing.

Water is rife with tension; it is the source of creation and destruction. The literary canon is filled with characters who tangle with the power of water and its gods: from Odysseus and Prospero, to the films of James Cameron and Hayao Miyazaki.

This series — The Third Eye of the Storm — began as a meditation on my fear of drowning; I began working while watching a gender-bent adaptation of The Tempest starring Helen Mirren as Prospera. The primary relationship of the play suddenly mother-daughter, I was thrust into an unexpected tempest of my own, processing my evolving relationship as my mother’s caregiver after years of navigating this stormy relationship.

Water is the source of life; so, too, our mothers. The ocean’s dance with the moon is one that has been worshiped and celebrated through ritual and art for millennia. That tension – the pull between the ocean and the moon, between life and death, creation and destruction, mothers and their children, vengeance and love–is the source of this body of work.

The title for this piece is from the song by the same name by Florence + the Machine

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