Venetian Lagoon Study

I found a way to keep the Venetian lagoon close while working in my New York studio through the creation of a series of intimate and detailed watercolour studies.

Melissa McGill

“Each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as sea water.

This is our inheritance from the day, untold millions of years ago, when a remote ancestor, having progressed from one-celled to the many-celled stage, first developed a circulatory system in which the fluid was merely the water of the sea…

As life itself began in the sea, so each of us begins our individual life in the miniature ocean within mother’s womb, and in the stages of embryonic development repeats the steps by which race evolved, from gill-breathing inhabitants of a water world to creatures able to live on land.”

Rachel Carson–The Sea Around Us, New York: 1989, p.13