Sea of Tranquility

In Christy's latest work “Sea of Tranquility”, the fragility and vulnerability of her experience as a photographer culminates in a landscape of angelic figures sprawled out in a circular design fit for any majestic Renaissance ceiling: the duality of the central figures, a man and a woman, lay opposite each other as if guiding us on some higher purpose. Set in a sea of color and complex and chaotic shapes, the figures are oddly serene, united by reflecting materials and a central core. In “Sea of Tranquility” the artist questions humanity’s need for suffering in order to be fully free, as if suffering and freedom formed its own conspicuous dichotomy. Accordingly, Christy named it after the first location on another celestial body visited by humans; the landing site on the Moon called "Mare Tranquillitatis” on July 20, 1969. If we can send a man to the moon, what else are we capable of? I wonder if we can end war on this planet. In this work she hopes to express; the coherence of human experience leading to the core of our greatest strengths: our quest for beauty, hope, compassion, understanding, love and truth.