Cataracts

Cataracts

Red Arrow Gallery, 6 – 28 February 2021

We are as much a part of the water cycle as water is a part of us. Despite it’s ubiquity as a primary driver of our existence, the water cycle in all it’s complexity can be hard to see: our anthropocentric gaze tends to obscure the human relationship to ecology. This perspective mistakenly encourages us to understand nature as something apart from ourselves; it is through this distortion that ecologies may be reduced to resources for extraction or real estate (where a premium may be paid for a water view). This blindspot may cause us to miss the devastating truth that the water cycle is vulnerable to disruptions associated with our success.

These paintings are made with watercolor and homemade walnut ink. Some colors were applied traditionally with a brush, some were applied to pressed and dried plants which were then laid onto wet paper, some were brushed on traditionally and then plant material was laid on while wet and removed after drying, and some were painted through tarlatan and other meshes