Beach Bodies

The beach sanctions a space where we can show our skin,
take off our clothes and bathe in light.

It is a place of longing –closest to paradise

Dreaming up beaches in escape

There is a freedom in weightlessness wading into water

and turning primal in our surroundings.

Scrutinizing eyes pull us back

Beach bodies limited to mannequin-esque skins

of godlike proportions

Social spheres –the beach colony, holiday-framed

Watching yourself being watched

Galleries of worshiped flesh

and examples of bodies shamed

Take care,

sunset sunshine

Still holding onto the imagined place of obscurity

where intoxicated bodies move from one state of transience to the next

Permission to roam

Still self-aware

Morning Rain, 2010

Artist statement I wrote for a new series of paintings I am working on 

in response to the painting "Islands".