Stillness in Motion: What the Tide Remembers
Acrylic on Canvas
From the collection: Transitions in Time – A Twilight Journey in Ningo
This painting holds more than a view—it holds a crossing. Set where land meets water in the coastal town of Ningo, Stillness in Motion captures the quiet power of a bridge that links not just two places, but two worlds: Old Ningo and New Ningo. Cars and boats move through the scene, echoing the rhythm of life in a coastal community—where movement is livelihood, and the tide both takes and returns.
This was the place where I began healing—where I first embraced painting as refuge while living with Borderline Personality traits, and where I found meaning in mentoring young girls as a public health educator. The bridge pictured isn’t just symbolic; in local tradition, it’s sacred. The living may cross it, but the dead cannot. Funeral hearses avoid it and use a longer route, out of reverence for ancestral beliefs that spirits of the sea forbid their passage.
I may not believe the tale, but I do believe in what it implies: this place, this view, this moment—it’s for the living. For those still becoming. In the swirl of cool waves, jagged brushwork, and vibrant skies, this piece becomes a meditation on life in motion. A reminder that in places where stories run deep, even the simplest crossings carry meaning.
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