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Mermaid Series
The inspiration for this series of body print/fish print collages came from a stanza in John Masefield's poem, SEA FEVER.
"I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying."
As Jéan-Franscois de Villiers says in his book, "The Venus Code" , Masefield gives us "..... the perfect example of the universal human hankering after the primordial. Or is it more of a primordial satisfaction, of seeking out and finding the sea?" (pg 56)
For me it is a question of wanting to merge, submerge into the ocean. The metamorphosis in the mermaid series, starts with just small fins appearing on her back, her legs are replaced with tails and there is a falling sensation, drifting or perhaps submerging......and so the change completes to a sort of Therianthrope ,as in some Southern African rock art, except here instead of a fish head an human legs, there is a human body and fish.