REVERSE EKPHRASIS

This series of paintings is inspired by a passage from the novel Circe by Madeline Miller. The passage reads as follows: "Three hundred years and more had passed since I had come. The oak that creaked over my head I had known as a sapling. The beach ebbed and flowed, its curves changing with every winter season. Even the cliffs were different, carved by the rain and wind, by the claws of countless scrabbling lizards, by the seeds that stuck and sprouted in their cracks. Everything was united by the steady rise and fall of nature's breath. Everything except for me." (Miller, 286)