Sea Scape, 1970 Oil on canvas 90 x 70 x 1 ¼ inches Collection of the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi 2003.12.15

In Sea Scape, Hood renders a vision of the sea from multiple perspectives with her layers of various shades of blue and gray. Her folds of color in the top half of the painting provide an overhead view of waves rolling, crashing, and breaking upon each other. The shift into darker tones at the bottom of the painting plunges us deep into chasms as she plumbed its infinite depths.  This painting closely aligns with Hood’s Sea Elegy series of seven paintings. Here, as in those paintings, Hood focused on sweeps of color that move across the canvas to reflect the fluidity and motion of water while playing with ideas of expansiveness, and creative control.