Water is always moving. It falls from the sky, flows through rivers and lakes, disappears into the earth, rises again into the atmosphere, and moves through living things. Its form changes, but the water itself continues on its pathway through the world.
I am fascinated by the idea that the water in our own bodies has been part of this continuous cycle for an unimaginably long time. The wood in this piece once held water as a living tree, just as our bodies depend upon it now. We are all connected through this movement.
Water's Pathway is a reflection on water as our most essential shared resource. Its abundance can make it easy to take for granted, yet everything depends upon it. I made this piece as a meditation on the many ways water moves through the living world and through our own lives.
"Water's Pathway" references the journey of H2O as it descends for thousands of years deep into the earth's aquifers. The phase transformation from solid, to liquid, to gas, and the fall of rain into the rivers, lakes and oceans. It is about the water that comprises the bulk of our own bodies and once saturated the very wood this sculpture was made from. The simple essential fact is water carries all life. I built this sculpture contemplating the nuances, subtleties, positive and negative traits of the most valuable shared resource on this planet.
This sculpture represents a new direction in my work as well as new techniques that I developed to achieve this design. The natural bark face is a new take on live edge and is intended to elicit the sense of a living form, the organic water inlay of mosaic glass provides a balanced compliment to the textural surface of the bark.
