Waves of Silk

I’m not a painter. But only I could paint her.

The inkling of Dreamy Vesuvius began in late 2022, rough outlines of a woman’s back, first in pencil, then in dry brush strokes, uneven and uncertain. Imperfect, as all beginnings are. And that was the point: I painted not with intent, but with instinct, letting hours take shape in brushstrokes.

In January 2023, she arrived more fully. What started as hesitant lines soon expanded into something cosmic, indigo and violet sponged across the canvas, a figure rising between earth and sky. Not polished. Not complete. But alive.

The version you see today, Dreamy Vesuvius, is less ethereal, more grounded. Her body belongs to the earth, her head to the clouds. She is both anchored yet uncontainable, a passage between earth and sky.

 

Waves of Silk

From that first imperfect painting, the current carried forward. Waves of Silk became its own language, a film of brushstrokes flowing in gold and blue, movements that mimic currents, gestures that echo memory.

It is not about symmetry. It is not about control. It is about the way fragments meet, ocean and mountain, silence and eruption, what is broken and what endures.

 

Beneath the Surface

We all carry scars. Some visible, others buried. Pressure reshapes us, collapses us, remakes us. What lies beneath, the molten depths, the silent tremors, the cracks that no eye sees, is where resilience is born.

Dreamy Vesuvius rises from this place. She is made not in spite of imperfections but through them.

 

The Work of Making

At its core, Waves of Silk is a study in process. The brushstrokes are not tidy; the film does not chase symmetry. It reflects how things are made: layer by layer, mistake by mistake, until something stands.

Covellite’s first collection, Dreamy Vesuvius, is born in the same way, through resilience, repetition, and patience.

She is the dreamer’s dream.
The silk of stone and sea.
She is every scar, every joy, every tide that made her, her.

A glimpse of what is to come, covellite’s Dreamy Vesuvius, previewing and preorder Summer 2025/26.