Mother Goddess (Fish Carrier Sculpture)

This sculptural relief turns the whale into a vessel of memory: a warm, burnished hull cradling a procession of small fish that read like migrating thoughts, each glint of blue and white punctuating the timber’s earthy gravitas. The rectangular cut-out carves negative space into a quiet “window” of sea-air, while the repeating fish silhouettes along the body create a rhythmic frieze that balances playfulness with an almost talismanic order. Light skims across the textured surface like tidal shimmer, suggesting that what is carried—stories, kinship, survival—moves in cycles, held together by the protective architecture of the larger form.