What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
DESCRIPTION:
The archival footage of the Bikini Atoll atomic tests was completely confounding: a brilliant flash of light, a perfect circle of bright white light expanding on the ocean surface, an impossibly huge column of water rising from the ocean defying gravity, the mushroom cloud forming, and then starting to fall at the edges.
2016 Acrylic on watercolor paper Size: 18"x24"