Into the Sea

"You leave, Alfonsina
with your solitude
what new poems
did you go looking for?
An ancient voice
made of wind and salt
shatters your soul
it is taking her away
and you are going over there
as if in a dream
asleep, Alfonsina
dressed as the sea"

From a song by Mercedes Sosa, Alphonsine and the Sea (Alfonsina y el mar)

This piece started as a monoprint which I later planned to stamp and play around with. But the more I looked at it, the more it resembled an ocean and it got me thinking about this particular song. It's a very old song , beautiful and sad, it's about a woman who loses herself in the ocean and nobody knows why. That's why I decided to add the woman's torso walking into this particular sea...nostalgic, sad, mystical, unknown. She walks into the uncharted waters for reasons no one understands, only her heart knows why.