There Is A Peace Easily Won Down By The Sea. I love this painting, and this was the very first painting that I ever made where I took the little houses that Mrs Mazursky lives in, and bought them all the way out and stuck them in the water, totally free from the land, totally unaccessible except by boat, like a little island, like a little place where everything you have, everything you need you have, everything you desire is around you, and you're perfect and at home and capable. I got the idea, I first started thinking about putting the houses in the water when I ran a story about a town, or I guess you call a gathering of houses in Florida, called Stiltsville, and I don't know if it even still exists, but these houses sat on stilts way out in a calm water, and people would drive their boats up to them and everything was lived out on the water, no electricity, no running water, nothing, and also I went to a couple of islands in Maine where they were way far out in the water, and where there was very little electricity, water was rationed, you really were on a rock out in the middle of nowhere, but where you would think it might be full of hardships, actually you were quite content, because what you had is what you had, you had no need to want anything more, you make do, you live out in nature, you just accept that the life you have is enough, and you don't even long for anything else because it's not obtainable, and I started putting this Mazursky out at the edge of the world, and I think of this series as 'Women who live at the edge of the world' and it's a little bit different from people who live framed up in regular houses, but it's about people who are striking their own way, and making their own way, and finding contentment with where they are in their life as opposed to finding discontentment with where they are not.