Adventures of the Naghual

Sedna and the Girl Without Hands, 2020, 80 x 61cm

This is based on the Inuit myth of the sea goddess Sedna and the story of “The Girl without Hands” the brothers Grimm have retold, as well as in a dream in which a young Inuit woman leads me to go under the water of the Arctic Sea.

Both stories have a similar theme: Sedna has her fingers cut off by her father when she falls overboard and tries to hold onto the edge the boat. She falls to the bottom of the Sea, where she becomes the Goddess of the Sea and her fingers become the fish and other creatures who live in the water.

The other floating figure is the girl without hands: her father tried to sell her to the devil, who is not able to take her for her purity: the father hacks off her hands, however she cannot be taken and flees, her healing happens by withdrawing into solitude for many years.

On the Fountain 2021, 80 x61cm

This is just an image from a dream I had. I found myself sitting on the fountain in formal gardens, the fish were jumping up from the water beneath, dense like a skirt and birds were covering my  top half.