MERMAID
This is a portrait of my friend Leslie. Sometimes I do portraits of my friends and ask them how they would like to be portrayed. Leslie wanted to be a mermaid. Here she is relaxing at the bottom of the sea. To me she symbolizes the mind at rest and receptive to the benefits of unconscious. There is a time in the creative process where one must relax and be open to what comes. Ideas swim like fish in the deep waters of the unconscious mind.