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Acrylic on canvas. Brushwork. Varnished. Representational magical realism.
This piece is a self-portrait, though not in the traditional sense. It is a portrait of feeling, of being human in a time when the world feels fragmented, flooded, and fraying.
Inspired by John Updike’s line, “all the futility of the world pouring into me,” the painting holds the weight of both grief and tenderness, of love and loss.
The central figure, regal and dressed in Renaissance silks, her green skirt billowing gently in the sea, stands alone in the water, with no land in sight. Around her, a cat and a fox swim beneath the surface, both ghostlike and real. In her arms she cradles a raccoon, a gesture of nurture and defiance.
These animals, often kept as pets, yet also hunted, exploited, or forgotten, are her companions in a dissolving world. Behind them: rising seas, vanished lands, and the quiet violence of a planet in peril.
Nothing in this painting is real. The image is formed from pieces of memory and love, merging, separating, reforming. Like shoreline. Like hope.
Come Let Me Love You Still is an invitation: to witness, to mourn, and to receive the last tenderness we still know how to give.
This painting is dedicated to Mara, my cat who died three years ago. I still think of you, little one.: invalid url input -->)
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