Submerged
In Submerged, I dive into the vast, limitless space between the transcendence of being held by water and the weight of a body without breath.
As a lifelong swimmer, water is home: it’s where I feel weightless, expansive, and free. On land, submersion can feel like overwhelm from a dysregulated nervous system.
Between these extremes lives something deeper. A whole world of sensation, perception, and discovery that shifts not with circumstance but with how we inhabit each moment.
Depth can feel like freedom—a doorway into a vast and magical universe in hues of blue—or it can feel like drowning.
This painting explores the universe between buoyancy and suffocation where the difference is feeling safe.
PLEASE NOTE: This painting is part of the “Between Here & There Collection” and will remain on view at Commonplace Coffee Rockwell Park in Pittsburgh from September 1 until the week of week of October 26–31.
When you purchase work(s) from the show, you'll “reserve” them until that week, when you can:
Pick it up at the coffee shop (we'll coordinate a time together) or,
Arrange with me to have it shipped to you.