Camille Rose Garcia’s “Nereids of Mare Medusae.”…

At present on view at Roq la Rue Gallery in Seattle, Washington is artist Camille Rose Garcia’s solo exhibition, “Nereids of Mare Medusae.”

“I imagine the human activities of the earlier couple of a long time has remaining me stargazing and ocean wandering as a survival strategy. I simply cannot only make artwork about a dying earth, about a dying lifestyle, when there is nevertheless so significantly mystery and awe inspiring splendor to experience all all around us. My enchantment with ocean and star themes is significantly influenced by my setting. I dwell 20 minutes from the Pacific Ocean in California, and through the Pandemic I would get weekly ocean hikes with my mom, who lives in a residence overlooking the ocean that my grandfather constructed.  It became a supply of good comfort and ease and solace  to be at the ocean picking up shells and odd items of driftwood, and I wondered about its electricity to enchant and quiet human beings as a result of tough periods.

For my solo display, “Nereids of Mare Medusae”, I was wondering of the ocean and of the stars, and then, of study course, about oceans on other stars. I started to visualize the oceans on other planets, as I remembered that Europa and Enceladus, (moons of Saturn and Jupiter) each have oceans inside the moon, surrounded by a thick crust of ice. I appeared to see if these oceans had names, but I couldn’t obtain any. I made the decision to name the ocean within Enceladus, just one of Saturns’ moons. I named it Mare Medusae, not soon after Medusa, but just after the lovely jellyfish drawings of Ernst Haeckel, who named the most attractive jellyfish he encountered just after his dead spouse Anna. The Nereids are Greek ocean spirits, but contrary to the Sirens, they are benevolent in character. The Nereids aren’t just very to glimpse at even though, they are chaotic doing stuff in that ocean inside that moon orbiting Saturn. Possibly they create magical devices and natural machines produced of shells and serpents, producing a psychedelic universe with benevolent audio vibrations.” – Camille Rose Garcia

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