"Thalassa is a primordial incarnation of the sea originally created for The New Orleans Museum of Art. It was the months after the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf, and this body of water that Swoon had loved since she was a child was in peril. As Swoon drew Thalassa surging up from the water she felt her rising like a wake-up call, one that reminds us of our inseparability from the sea"
