Moonlight Swimming
Cara Foster
The inspiration for this piece came from my sophomore summer when I often went swimming at night in the Connecticut River. It’s something of a combination of two landscapes, since the mountains are from Lake George in New York State.
In this piece I was trying to convey the sense of complete freedom and peace, as well as wonder, that I sometimes experienced when floating in the river. By putting the feet in the water, I was trying to give the viewer a feeling of being part of the picture, like in The Dawn Treader, when Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace enter Narnia by stepping through a picture frame.