I called this painting Ice Breaker because of the way the large triangular darker blue shape resembles the shape of a boat from an aerial perspective - or maybe the viewer could be looking up from underwater, it looks like it's pushing through the water and the creamy and grey shapes are getting pushed aside. I see the other more colorful forms as a colony of new life and growth forming and being supported by this large dark boat (or it could be a mountain). To me, the theme of this image is the cycle of creation and destruction that is always happening everywhere in the universe. And how new life, creation, and growth push forward and renew even though there are obstacles, deaths, things that we need to let go of

The pink and red thin lines are a kind of thin cellular membrane - a boundary between what's outside and what is inside - and there are breaks in the boundary - signifying that we always have inputs coming in from outside - that though there may be a boundary between what is and what isn’t, that separation is never complete, and we/an ecosystem/the universe is/are always in a state of change and cause and effect, with actions of the whole universe shaping our present moment.

And yet we still have agency in deciding how to move through our lives and to some extent we can choose what lives and dies for us conceptually, spiritually, emotionally.