The Girl who Ate the Ocean

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Acrylic on canvas. Brushwork. Varnished. Representational magical realism.

In this companion piece to "The Knife and the Spoon," a young girl stands not only in the ocean, she is the ocean’s witness, and its reckoning.

She looms large in the water, towering not as a goddess but as a mirror and a symbolic vessel for all humanity.

In one hand, a fork. In the other, a spoon. Above her, just visible in the sky, the pale images of a whale and an octopus. As if they are perhaps ghosts. As if they once were, and now are not.

This painting is about the moment after. After we've taken too much. After the hunger has hollowed out the sea. And yet we still hold the cutlery. We still choose.

What remains when what we once loved is gone?

This piece is not accusatory. Like its sister work, it is tender and sorrowful. A myth of memory. A fable made visible.