Harmonia Rosales
Harmonia Rosales
Yemaya and Erinle, c. 2019
Oil on Canvas
36 × 48 in, 91.4 × 121.9 cm
Yemaya is often depicted as a mermaid, and is associated with the moon, water, and feminine mysteries. She is the protector of women. She governs everything pertaining to women. According to myth, when her waters broke, it caused a great flood creating rivers and streams and the first mortal humans were created from her womb. More on Yemoja
Yemaya and Erinle. Yemaya was truly happy Living alone at the bottom of the seas. She finally had time for herself to do whatever she pleased, which was to live peacefully-something forgot about till now with children running the kingdom and her duties.
Early one morning as she swam in the ocean, she caught a glimpse of movement that warranted her attentions. It was a handsome man , and it was none other than Inle, who was doing his usual fishing.
Erinle has all his attention of his fishing when suddenly he was surprised by a beautiful mermaid who filled him with the feeling of love. He could not explain it, and thought he was dreaming until a voice of the beautiful mermaid spoke to him saying ..
"I am Yemaya, owner of this kingdom you are fishing in. It is I that provides the fish that come to your hook. All this kingdom, which you can see is immensely large is mine."
Yemaya confessed to Erinle that although she ruled over the vast kingdom of the seas , there where times she found herself lonely. Without hesitation Erinle offered to keep her company in her times of loneliness.
Yemaya could see she liked Erinle and she explained that she was looking for a companion and Erinle accepted her invitation without consideration.
Yemaya and Erinle started on their way to the bottom of the ocean. The handsome Erinle felt as if he was in a dream taken by Yemaya's beauty and the vastness of her kingdom. He had never imagined a beauty as such existed in the world. More on Yemaya and Erinle
Harmonia Rosales (born 1984) was born in Chicago and grew up in Champaign, IL. She cites her parents as the spark for her interest in the visual arts. She attended Glenville State College in West Virginia.
Growing up, she was fond of many of the classic Italian Renaissance paintings. She married her high school sweetheart and conceived a daughter. After realizing that the relationship wouldn’t work out, she got a divorce and left.
Rosales works to reinterpret Renaissance masterworks by replacing Black heroines as the main subject of the painting because she says that “religion and power go hand in hand” and the colonists had used religion to “manipulate and control.” She explains the idea that a Eurocentric white male dominated heaven is all what people see and it is what everyone grows up around to the point that such a high value is placed on them. She said that she hopes to be able to empower people with art, even if it is a small group of individuals. More on Harmonia Rosales
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