heads above water

Acrylic on watercolor paper

29x41in 2025 by Jennifer Verdieu New York

The ocean holds its breath,

sunset stripes a sky too heavy to fall.

and she walk. A golden head balanced

like a fragile moon between tides of duty and dream.

beneath her, the world is fragmented:

Corridors of colour, decisions not yet made.

Above, Stillness.

A promise that even in abstraction, we remain afloat.

even when weighted, we rise