Come Sail Your Ships Around Me

Towards history, ships have transported people into slavery, carried vast armies towards conquest, saved other armies from annihilation, saved species from the Great Flood, and brought refugees from tyranny towards new lands. Ships have symbolized the horrors of humanity, the might of empires, and the hope of a new life in freedom.

On the other hand, water represents the unconscious and the emotional content of our personality.
So a boat is a vehicle in which we can cross over emotions and travel through the confusion of the unconscious forces prevalent within our lives. It gives us the means of ‘staying afloat’ over these feelings and emotions. It functions as the symbolic vehicle that enables our journeys through dark waters, a vehicle of faith, of trust and most of all, of support.

Barbara’s exhibition at Fortuna, with its title after Nick Cave’s “The Ship Song”, brings a new and more intimate, optimistic approach than her past exhibitions, presenting a much tender and hopeful range of works, about healing and the impact others have on us, in an universal and individual way.

The importance of having ships sailing around and with us, specially when drowning is always a possibility.
“The Ship’ as a symbol of a vigilant or rescuing element in either the vast political landscape and in one and all’s lives, be that ship whoever or whatever keeps our heads over water.
For the first time, Barbara will present works in two versions, the oil painting and the digital drawing, as a celebration of coexistence.