The Immovable Lady of the Sea - artwork and story by @mariandavp

Τoday's office art is about life's only real constraint; time.

One way or another we are all aware of time and its importance in the pursuit of happiness, whatever happiness may mean for each one of us.

Some people may feel they got little time and this perception to motivate them to work harder in order to achieve their goals, others may feel that the little time they have in their hands should be invested in enjoying the moment. These are the main human attitudes, which people may adopt in their lifetime.

However, many many years ago a girl was born that had a defect; she couldn't comprehend time. Growing up was very difficult for her. Her parents usually thought she was moving too slow and forced her to move faster. In order to please them she would try to walk faster but since she only understood the difference between slow and fast as a difference in the sequence of movements, she wasn't acting natural and ended up with a dozen of cuts and bruises every time. In school she faced the same problems with reading and writing, and when she was a grown up lady she messed up in relationships too. Her boyfriends would leave her either because she seemed uninterested or because she was too interested. All she wanted was to be happy, like everybody else.

She wanted to feel loved, to have companionship, to feel she can influence people in a positive manner. Unfortunately everything she did, to the rest of the world seemed out of tune. She pushed everyone away.

For many years she tried to cope her defect but the only time of day she would feel somewhat tranquil was during her evening walk by the sea. She would walk every day after lunch and until the sun went down, which was her long stop sign.

One day, one difficult day of suffering by another rejection, she didn't pay attention to the sun. She found herself lost in the dark. She panicked. Where was she? She walked even further away from home seeking for someone to help her or any sign to guide her. Who knows how far she had gone until she saw a small church on the top of a mountain overseeing the pelagos. Light was coming out of its windows so she had to climb the mountain up to it. Maybe someone was in there. So she did.

It was a hard way up. She only had the moonlight and her dedication to shine upon her steps. She finally reached the church, exhausted and terrified. What if she had made a terrible mistake? What if no one was in there? How would she get back?

Hello! Anybody in? she shouted a couple of times but got no response. Carefully she placed her ear against the door hoping to hear someone moving in the church. Νothing. She had no choice. She put her hand on the rusty metal handle and pushed the old door open.

Light

As she opened the door, thousands waves of white light flew out of the church and caressed her. Τhe light iluminated the church, the sky and her soul.

It was a miracle she could not explain. It was as if this light shined in her mind and helped her comprehend time. But the time she was introduced to was not a time that ends. It was eternal and cyclical. It renewed and transformed itself every day and every night following the same pattern with the sunlight and the moonlight. Time was a cosmic energy and she was just a particle of time helping it transform. She understood time in the exact opposite manner of humanity.

She fell on her knees in the middle of the church and prayed to this energy to become her companion. Time heard and made her its Queen. The Queen would bear forever the light as her crown and become timeless to mankind.

People named her the Immovable Lady of the Sea because to them she looked like a female shaped mountain with a small orthodoc church on the top. But the Queen of Light lived and breathed and was happier than ever. Finally she was loved and admired and attracting people from all over the world who would happily dedicate their time to meet her.

[Some photos from the process]