Waiting Harbor
This painting is for you if water brings you patience and grounding.
Waiting Harbor depicts a harbor not far from my home. When I see it I always pause. This is the perfect space for reflection and grounding.
The body of water feels familiar to many. Water seems to speak a universal language that makes so many people feel at home.
This painting forms part of my Un/Inhabited collection, which is grounded in the idea that our surroundings help to shape our internal landscapes.
Hang Waiting Harbor as a reminder that you can rediscover the feeling of home by embracing your surroundings.
Mixed media on canvas
Measures 30 x 40 x 2.5 inches
Framed in a raw maple
Ready to hang
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About the Series: Un/Inhabited
The work I created for Un/Inhabited is about the way our external surroundings shape our internal landscapes through slow acts of noticing, such as a daily walking practice or accessing the world through our senses. The places I have chosen to represent are all near water, as this landscape has shaped my sense of home. Observing these places helped me arrive at my own personal revelations about belonging.
Noticing our surroundings requires us to hold two opposites in our mind – the feeling of permanence when we realize that we are part of our places and then acknowledging their fleeting impermanence. We belong to ourselves, our places, and each other, yet those relationships are constantly changing, dying, and birthing themselves all over again. These ideas are represented for me in landscapes defined by water. They are grounding yet evolving all at once.
The landscapes I painted in this series are from places that have shifted my definition of home. While the chosen imagery of the water and woods may look familiar to the Midwesterner, these landscapes come from parks in Shanghai, snapshots taken from the passenger side window in Southeast Asia, and meandering walks along Lake Mendota. Each place stood out to me because they shared my vision of my home regardless of location.
