Demeter

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

16"H × 20"W

Year

2026

Agriculture has become an industry shaped by noise and charged emotion. To be a steward of the land now entails more than providing sustenance and bringing goods to market; economics and science have taken center stage in the complex enterprise of feeding humankind. Yet Demeter, the goddess of what grows from the earth, embodies a quieter, more deliberate approach. She operates in harmony with a natural world inherently designed to sustain itself, in contrast to the hubris of modern agribusiness, whose interventions have often diminished both soil vitality and nutritional integrity. Across this blue planet, living systems function in intricate interdependence, beyond the scope of human control. Even the most delicate forms—like the drifting seeds of the dandelion—carry a quiet resilience, a force that persists despite attempts to contain or redefine it.