Ripples / Maple - Clara Olivia Levesque (Montreal,QC)

Ripples / Maple
Clara Olivia Levesque
2X(10"X8")
Watercolors on St-Armand watercolor paper/Aquarelles sur papier aquarelle St-Armand
2020

Unframed/Non-encadrée

All artworks are signed and come with a personalized message from me. The message is written on a card printed with some of my original artwork.
 

Ripples is about the ebb and flow of emotional processes. Our feelings simultaneously create ripples within us as well as to those around us - we are all interconnected and intraconnected. Ripples remind us of the bravery of deep diving into dark, adventurous, and somewhat daunting places; of the importance of remembering to breath out bubbles and to resurface for air; to allow yourself to simply exist in these waters as they are; and so much more.

Maple is an ode to the changing of the seasons. It celebrates the restorative aspects of autumn leaves being shed and vibrant colours allowing themselves to metamorphose. Yet, it also evokes the springtime eagerness of the first maple harvests and allowing the land to give its first drops away for a brighter future before we allow ourselves to mindfully bask in its sweetness.