Brackish

Named "Brackish" for a couple of reasons....

 First, and maybe most obvious, is that this nautical chart depicts exactly where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean.  Fresh water meets Salt Water, mixing to find that unique and perfect balance that is the estuary known as The Chesapeake Bay.  Brackish water. 

 Second, I kind of feel like this represents me.... a perfect blend of fresh idealism and optimism, order, and creativity, blended with some grit, some hard-earned experience, some challenges.... some "salt."

 Lastly, the medium, method and substrate here all have meaning.  The reclaimed wood represents history, timelessness, sturdiness.  The medium, encaustic wax represents a contrast to that sturdiness.  The wax is malleable and somewhat unpredictable in the way it lays down, is reheated, scraped back, and then built upon, revealing layers that you didn't see at first glance. 

The nautical chart is order, a system of organization, always orienting one to North and one's own magnetic north, depending upon what their own personal variation and deviation are to the norm.Helping one to literally find their own place in the world.Against all that order is the curved and organic form of land, representing a wave.Highs and lows, hard boundaries and others that are softer, providing safe harbor and places to explore.