Original artwork description:

While I was painting this wave/splash, I could see in my mind similar images from my past. The strongest image was the water raising up above my eyes, slowly, in an unstoppable dynamic. The next memory associated with that is of me on the beach next to my brother who hurt himself while he was saving me from drowning. He stepped on a nail which was inside of a wood piece. During the progress of the artwork the memory became more vivid and I could feel not only the beauty of water, but also its dynamic and strength which influenced my brush strokes and my approach to the artwork. Water can be a destroyer when it is in the form of tsunamis, floods,… Catastrophic flood legends are almost in every culture. We can use water but its ability to dominate and inundate us is far greater.
Japanese poet Ki no Tsurayuki captured the two faces of water in the Tosa Nikki (AD 936):
'Seeking to fathom the mind of the raging god, we cast a mirror into the stormy sea. In that his image is revealed. An amazing experience surely this cannot be the god whom we commonly associate with such gentle things as “Limpid Waters,” “The Balm of Forgetfulness,” and “Pines along the Shore”? We have all seen with our own eyes— and with the help of a mirror— what sort of a god he is.'

Posidonia Oceanica is an endemic Mediterranean plant with the same external organization as the superior plants. It has roots, stem, leaves and capacity to produce flowers and fruits with seeds. It forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the ecosystem. The fruit is free floating and known in Italy as "the olive of the sea". The plants of Posidonia oceanica grow forming wide meadow, for an optimum growth it needs transparent waters. For this reason, the presence of dense and large meadows is a clear sign of the quality of its waters. The presence of Posidonia Oceanica proves the quality of the water represented in this series of paintings, with the focus is on the refraction of light on a soft background, the sky at different times of the day.

Materials used:

Oil on Aluminium Composite Panel