This painting was inspired by a French poem by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem provided a rich source of imagery and atmosphere that I could easily interpret into an equally rich and multi-layered composition. In the poem an abandoned boat drifts hauntingly through its journey:

“The storm made bliss of my sea-borne awakenings. Lighter than a cork, I danced on the waves which man call eternal rollers of victims….

And from that time on I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star infused and churned into milk, devouring the green azures; where entranced and pallid flotsam, a dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down; where, suddenly dyeing the blueness – deliriums and slow rhythms under the gleams of the daylight…”

By Arthur Rimbaud