A Feeling I don't talk about

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A Feeling I don't talk about
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
2023


A Feeling I don’t Talk About

Sometimes there is a rock in my heart.

The more I ignore it, the heavier it gets,

until my body could no longer bear its deadweight.

It sinks deeper and deeper under the sea,

drowning with every breath I take.

In the garden,

the flowers have reached full bloom.

Sunlight pours through the window,

warming every corner of the room,

but in that deep ocean where the rock lies,

no light can reach it.

The rock can be found

but not taken away.

The rock can be broken,

but its fragments dissolve with the current

and become one with the sea.

I am a fish unable to breathe

The only sound I can make is

A sigh


Alice Cao - Biography

Alice Cao is an interdisciplinary artist, illustrator, and educator from Surrey, Canada. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor of Education (in Visual Arts) from UBC. Her work ranges from whimsical children’s illustrations and surreal paintings to dreamlike sculptures and film photography.

She is inspired by her imaginative daydreams, nature walks, poems, stories, and dream journals she has written throughout the years. Alice is experimental and playful in her approach and enjoys working with a variety of mediums to discover new ways of thinking and making. She is particularly interested in watercolour due to its beautiful unpredictability and the lively ways that it moves and interacts with each other, which allows her to explore the tug-of-war between conscious control and manipulation and the act of letting feelings and intuition take over, between the comfort of predictability and the discomfort of the unknown. Alice would compare her artistic process to the way she writes a poem: There are no instructions or steps; the work unfolds and expands as it goes, like a story coming to life.

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