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“Thalasa”
By Swoon
“Thalasa”
Inventory: 386
Size: 80 x 30 x 2.75 in
Medium: Screenprint and hand painted acrylics on paper and wooden door.
Creation Date: 2016
“Thalassa”
The name Thalassa is Greek word for "ocean", a primordial incarnation of the sea that is not often personified. Thalassa is said to have given birth to all tribes of fish in the sea. She is the pull of the sea that comes from inside the salt water in our blood. “Thalassa was originally created for New Orleans. It was the months after the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf in 2010, and this body of water that I’d loved since I was a child was in peril. As I drew Thalassa surging up from the water I felt he...