"Living on a small island in the Baltic Sea for the last eight years, I have come to deeply love the ocean and it's many moods. Surrounded by people with a long maritime history, I have learned to have enormous respect and compassion for the people who roam the sea and the ones who stay behind.
This melancholic longing and unity with the water was what immediately resonated with me in Fernando Pessoa's poem "Portuguese Sea" and which became the main inspiration for my work. The lives and loves dependent on and ever interconnected with the sea...
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Maria Fynsk Norup is a visual artist and photographe...