She Touched the Stars by Theo Polymorphos is an oil on canvas painting that is 21 and 5/8th inches square and is framed.
In the words of the artist:
“Like the sirens of myth and folktale, the eerie glow of bioluminescence has fascinated me for years and inspired many recent paintings, since I experienced this phenomenon firsthand kayaking in the lagoon near my home. The mysterious blue light is a powerful symbol both personally and in the collective, calling us to attention to the unconscious depths. Expanding on a medieval fairy tale, Jungian analyst James Hollis interprets the blue light as an anima image beckoning toward authenticity and the true self. In these two paintings, the blue light emerges from the sea. Juxtaposed with reflections of the night sky, it also recalls the Hermetic maxim ‘As above, so below” and the archaic Greek trope of the sea in the sky and the sky in the sea, unconscious reflecting conscious and vice versa. Thus, the seductive siren call of the blue deep takes on a spiritual dimension that transcends the sinister connotation of typical siren/mermaid tales. Both portend a type of death, but in this case at least, only as a necessary prelude to embracing one’s own inner light, a reflection of the cosmos. In She Touched the Stars, the figure is awake and in dialogue with the blue deep. From the safety of her kayak, she reaches downward at the glowing blue water, as if to touch the stars. This discovery illuminates something blue, something spiritual in her own being, as her skin glistens with blueish light. “
She Touched the Stars by Theo Polymorphos is an oil on canvas painting that is 21 and 5/8th inches square and is framed.
In the words of the artist:
“Like the sirens of myth and folktale, the eerie glow of bioluminescence has fascinated me for years and inspired many recent paintings, since I experienced this phenomenon firsthand kayaking in the lagoon near my home. The mysterious blue light is a powerful symbol both personally and in the collective, calling us to attention to the unconscious depths. Expanding on a medieval fairy tale, Jungian analyst James Hollis interprets the blue light as an anima image beckoning toward authenticity and the true self. In these two paintings, the blue light emerges from the sea. Juxtaposed with reflections of the night sky, it also recalls the Hermetic maxim ‘As above, so below” and the archaic Greek trope of the sea in the sky and the sky in the sea, unconscious reflecting conscious and vice versa. Thus, the seductive siren call of the blue deep takes on a spiritual dimension that transcends the sinister connotation of typical siren/mermaid tales. Both portend a type of death, but in this case at least, only as a necessary prelude to embracing one’s own inner light, a reflection of the cosmos. In She Touched the Stars, the figure is awake and in dialogue with the blue deep. From the safety of her kayak, she reaches downward at the glowing blue water, as if to touch the stars. This discovery illuminates something blue, something spiritual in her own being, as her skin glistens with blueish light. “
