Attenuation (Salacia)

9” square

oil on canvas over panel

2025

Attenuation: the property of matter to absorb some of the spectrum of penetrating energy or to reflect it…Any two energetic beings are changed by their mere contact.

In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean. Salacia was the personification of the calm and sunlit aspect of the sea.