Olena Rybalchenko - Where the Sea Keeps the Light

Where the Sea Keeps the Light
When night falls over the old shore, the sea grows restless and dark. Waves crash against the rocks, the wind hides the houses in shadow, and only the warm glow of the windows reminds us that somewhere, someone is waiting for a loved one to return.
Above the shore stands the lighthouse — a solitary keeper of the light. It has witnessed a thousand storms and a thousand journeys home. And high above it, the golden moon dissolves into the night sky, leaving a shimmering trail upon the water like a fragment of an ancient tale.
They say that as long as the light of the lighthouse meets the light of the moon, no traveller will ever lose their way home.
This painting is about a place that may never have existed. And yet, somehow, it feels as though we remember it.