Emerging Strength

Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 48 × 1.5 inches, 2025

Emerging Strength is a large original underwater acrylic painting depicting a woman in a purple bathing suit rising toward the surface. Bubbles surround her as refracted light moves across her body and the water, creating shifting patterns of navy, lilac, turquoise, and green.

The vertical composition emphasizes upward movement, while the optical distortions produced by the water transform the figure and surrounding space. Her ascent suggests renewal, determination, and strength taking shape through motion.

Part of the Women’s Resistance collection, the painting continues an ecofeminist investigation into environmental atmosphere, embodiment, and the sensory experience of submersion within the framework of The Ledger. The relationship between body, water, and light presents resilience as both physical movement and personal emergence.