After a gruelling season where I felt I was drowning under the weight of things, I’d begun a series of works featuring swimmers. To my surprise, both Patrick and Andrea who love water, the ocean, and swimming didn’t respond positively to the works.

Andrea remarked that the works felt scary.

I was reluctant to abandon the works entirely and so, set them aside indefinitely. Months later, I retrieved them, reworked them with subtle revisions, and reconnected with the flow of them. This time, the works received a favorable response :-)

I wondered what had changed, and realized then, that I had.

From feeling overwhelmed before, I was now coming up for air, finding breath. This shift reflected in the work. It was no longer ‘scary’ and neither was I.