Undine rises not as spectacle, but as threshold — where fluid becomes form, where myth accepts gravity.
Through love, she chooses to become human. Through devotion, she claims a soul.
Love does not diminish her nature; it gives it depth and consequence.
To emerge is to accept weight — and still ascend.
Undine Rising from the Water by Chauncey Bradley Ives - at Yale's Art Gallery, New Haven (USA)
















