Sargasso Sea Abby Levine acrylic and enamel on carved wood, 24" x 18" x 1"; $600 Exhibited at Village West in Wherefore Art Spring 2019 |
Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are coral made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell.
-- The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2
My work is always about transformation and the natural world, and my favorite works by Shakespeare treat that theme.
I haven't read The Tempest in a long time, but it lives within me and its mysterious creatures are always popping up in my world, twisting and changing.
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