The Entrance to Harmony

A little girl on the shore, wrapped in a striped towel, still wet from swimming. Her hair is bundled up in a hurry.

“The Entrance to Harmony”, a circle 50 cm across on wood. Texture, oil, gold. Mini-art.

The towel streams out behind her. Wings that do not fly yet and already know the direction.

She is looking ahead, at the sea she has just been pulled out of. There is expectation in that look, and a wish to go straight back in.

Sun pours over her in gold and marks her presence: small, and alive to the limit.

Hair in a bun, a striped towel, sand underfoot. The whole work is assembled from those three things.

The second is exact: between shore and water, between already and not yet. That is the threshold.

A round format suits this subject. It stops the story spreading and keeps the girl in the centre.

Breathe in, she remembers the water. Breathe out, she chooses to go back. Good on a bathroom or nursery wall.