S a l t y   S e a

Something about you cannot be contained.
A body so powerful yet fragile just the same.
Letting go of the toxins and deadening things, that prohibits the life that your body brings.
Thanking heaven for every breathe taken, as the whisper in the wind.
Yellow ray, yellow mass, dimming yellow when you pass.

Sea of blue. Sea of green. Seeing that which covers everything.
Ever flowing, ever knowing, an empty vessel filled by the Eternal.
Always reaching, never breaching the surface of what it means to feel “alive”.

“Salty Sea” was inspired by my first experience on one of the many San Francisco beaches last weekend. It refers to my encounter with this rock from the ocean in relation to the human body as I study pigmentations of the skin. I found this deep yellow ochre (or curry yellow) rock along my walk and decided to take it home - seeing how well it matched a color I had blindly chosen from a stock pile of paint colors in class. Little did I know, by separating this rock from its environment, the color would die and fade away. Never before have I thought it possible to kill a rock until I separated it from the body of water that gave it life. Now I know.

CCA | Color Intensive with Linda Geary