SEA ANATOMY

This new series of work addresses Manning's interest in transitions between life stages. Reflecting on moving through some of these transitions herself in raising children and in experiencing the death of her father, these works are a way for Manning to process and to dream.
Though bones may be seen as morbid, they are truly only made possible by life. This is symbolized by plants living and growing through the dead skeletons of other lives, under water- bone botanicals. Together they represent the great paradox- the dead record of life, and the living growth, each impossible without the other.

SEA ANATOMY is now on display at Leenie Rae Boutique + Gallery in San Francisco located at 930 Cole Street.