As a basis for this painting serves a photograph taken during a photoshoot in Latvia, in the city Jurmala, that literally translates to 'seaside'. The subject is Valerie, a DJ from Berlin. Inspired by latvian mythological figure Māra, the goddes of sea. water and wind. Valerie transform from a Berlin DJ into a sea nymph. Surrounded by flying herrings, and interwined with ferns, she sits still with a seductive and temptatious look at the viewer, in the synergy with nature, but also subjected to it.