The Wave that Watches Back

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

There are those who enter the sea not as intruders, but as kin.

This painting honours that quiet pact with the surfers, the freedivers, the watchers who rise and fall with the breath of the waves. Here, a man floats in the embrace of the water, his body suspended between worlds. Above him, the ocean rises up to meet him in the form of a dolphin, born of the waves themselves — a spirit of the deep made visible, a guardian, a mirror.

The reaching hand is not a grasping one, but an offering as if to say: "I see you. I belong to this place, but I know it never belongs to me."

Beneath the thrill of the ride, beneath the human joy, lives a profound respect: an ancient knowing that this blue world is vast, merciful, and utterly indifferent to our desires and that somehow, that indifference feels like connectedness.