MADE BY THE BECK

Meanwood Park – Leeds, 04/01/2023, Digital Photographs

Water is calm, water is dangerous, water destroys, water rebuilds. Water acts very similar to humans; the volatile, the unexpected, the solemn and the rash. So, if humans are artists, then why can’t water be?

The fact that water has its own life and is hard to control has become more apparent to me as I have worked with it. As I have progressed in this project around water, the relationship between us has become a collaboration, rather than me using it (like a material). There are parts in my work where the water has decided how it will look, how it will shape itself, and if it had been any different at the point, if the camera was rolling a second later, many of my pieces would look different. Thinking about what art water makes I came up with a few: sculpting coastlines, sculpting rocks, drawings left on the sand by the sea, ripples in the water, reflections of the world, droplets from rain on a window.

I took these photographs when I noticed water at the beck creating drawings with shapes and reflections.