Figurine with pomegranate and cockatoo March 28 2020

I look into the distance every morning as the sun rises out of the sea, shining on a big cruise ship anchored off the coast.  What have we done?  People's confident lives are undermined.  The habit of travel has proved a main culprit, and once again we are an island at the end of long voyages by sea.  Pomegranates were once painted in tombs, a symbol of the cycle of vegetative life, the fertility of the goddess and then a season in the underworld.

Diana Wood Conroy, 'Figurine with pomegranate and cockatoo', watercolour on Arches paper, 15 x 21 cm, March 28, 2020.