Sea Creatures

Reaching the sea has always been an almost daily activity.

Going back to the sea has always been a psychic, physical, emotional endeavour throughout my life, and especially now, that I don't live by the sea (although I live surround by a large amount of water).

I like what I'm scared of, I like what I can't have.

I was born by the sea.

While growing up, reaching the sea, admiring and fearing sea creatures, my father, a deaf man, taught me the world through drawing. Oral articulation of speech was replaced by sign language, and a dense communication practice through images created by his acute observation, and the connection between his brain and his hands.

Drawing has been one of my self-soothing practices throughout the years.

And since my father passed away, a way of grieving.

I had never focused on sea creatures as drawing subjects before, and I thought this would be a good occasion to start exploring their shapes and possibilities, and learning their outlines and secrets, while pondering on the stories I'm interweaving, and honouring my father's teachings.

(pictures are taken with a phone, in different light conditions - be it daylight coming from the windows, or electric light during evening and nighttime).

This gallery will be updated throughout the quarantine.