mermaids
Posted by Cliodhna
I love mermaids. I didn’t know this until recently when I looked at the work I had done for my last exhibition and realised there were loads of mermaids. I have dreamed of being a mermaid. I am not sure why the fascination. They are from the sea, from the subconcious, from dreams, from magical possibility. They are emotion and from our deep-selves. My name comes from under the sea. There was a race of Tuatha de Danann living in the kingdom under the sea.
I think i just love the idea of them. I love the sea but it scares me too. Deep water, seaweed. Anyone else get a panic in their stomach while swimming over seaweed? Maybe its because they are at home under the sea, in a strange murkyness, belonging to the moon.
When the sirens sing you don’t feel seasick. Mermaids are the souls of sailors who loved the sea.
Maybe they come from the need for sailors to put a beautiful face on the sea. The sea was changeable and dangerous and uncharted and mermaids were its soul and reflected how the sailors felt about the sea. Dreams about women on the long lonely voyages out of sight and contact with land for days on end. No cell phones or fancy navigational aids on those days.
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When you catch a mermaid you had better hold on tight, she is as slippery as a fish and will vanish from your grasp if you don’t keep her in your sight.
Mermaid, who does my dream self love?
I haven’t gotten over it yet. I have mermaids on my wall from mexico. They are still sitting in boxes in my new house in chihuahua so when I get there I will take some photos of them. I want to do some more. I have ideas! I even made a mermaid puppet I was really proud of, she turned out wonderful, until the house cat got a hold of her and chewed her head off. 
Maybe she is my sea soul, my feminine side of my soul, my dream part. I will ask for a dream from her and see what she has to say to me. I would ask her to help me release my fear of deep water, to see the beauty and power of the sea and the hidden treasures waiting for me.
What would you ask her? x clio
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ohh that first painting is so lovely!! i love mermaids too, in 2nd grade the girl who sat in front of me used to draw pictures of them and i thought they were so pretty so she taught me how to draw them. i wish i had still had those drawings. i swear every single day of school that year we’d each draw a new mermaid for the day!
that would be a cool thing to do! draw a new mermaid everyday.
Wow Cliodhna, beautiful!
I just finished a short story featuring a mermaid; and another one is half-finished for later. They reoccur in my fiction over and over … but I really don’t know why, deep down. They’re intriguing and amazing anyhow.
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