Burial at Sea
Oil on canvas (30”x40”)
Burial at sea was created during a time of great loss, a time when I was swallowed up by the waves. It represents the power of water, and its ability to destroy even the largest of ships. A burial at sea was often used in a time of necessity or wartime. When a body had to be disposed of before it started to decay, many sailors and Navymen choose to have a burial at sea to return their body to the place it spent the most. This painting is the realization that we often bury ourselves before we die. Within a job, an obsession, a place. We all have a choice what we do with our body when we are alive yet we often die before our soul has even left our body. Why not choose our final resting place before we are tired? Why not be alive while we still are? I choose to bury myself within the waves, and turn my hands blue. Make art or die and I am afraid of death.
2022
Oil on canvas (30”x40”)
Burial at sea was created during a time of great loss, a time when I was swallowed up by the waves. It represents the power of water, and its ability to destroy even the largest of ships. A burial at sea was often used in a time of necessity or wartime. When a body had to be disposed of before it started to decay, many sailors and Navymen choose to have a burial at sea to return their body to the place it spent the most. This painting is the realization that we often bury ourselves before we die. Within a job, an obsession, a place. We all have a choice what we do with our body when we are alive yet we often die before our soul has even left our body. Why not choose our final resting place before we are tired? Why not be alive while we still are? I choose to bury myself within the waves, and turn my hands blue. Make art or die and I am afraid of death.
2022
Oil on canvas (30”x40”)
Burial at sea was created during a time of great loss, a time when I was swallowed up by the waves. It represents the power of water, and its ability to destroy even the largest of ships. A burial at sea was often used in a time of necessity or wartime. When a body had to be disposed of before it started to decay, many sailors and Navymen choose to have a burial at sea to return their body to the place it spent the most. This painting is the realization that we often bury ourselves before we die. Within a job, an obsession, a place. We all have a choice what we do with our body when we are alive yet we often die before our soul has even left our body. Why not choose our final resting place before we are tired? Why not be alive while we still are? I choose to bury myself within the waves, and turn my hands blue. Make art or die and I am afraid of death.
2022
