Water is part of our daily experience and we can never underestimate the value of its functionality on practical levels and as a life partner. Yet, water as an art form is sometimes passed over in favour of more traditional surfaces. As an art form, few surfaces are as malleable and more available as water.
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The random nature of water lends itself to exploration of the unseen image that is hidden in the rhythm and subtlety of its nature. For herein lies the prize of artistry, to create and behold the unseen image. The rhythmic movement of sea waves beckons a gallery of images, a new shimmering way of seeing the waters, inverted and perverted. Seeing the waters, with dancing quavers and semiquavers, gifting a seaphony of imagery. With enhancement, the immersive artistic qualities of water can, with some coaxing, can be brought to the surface to be a new life.
I am fortunate that s an Art Photographer, potential unseen images are revealed to me wherever water is found. I am aware of the rule of light with its wavelengths shifting in time and its potential effect on the final image. Therefore, I often have to wait by the water source or its destination for some time, and then, like a sinner in the confessional, slowly, teasingly, the truth of its artistry is revealed. I am aware that this one singular moment of liquid enlightenment can never be repeated. In this held moment of capture and time, the captured image remains for all time absolutely unique.
In the silent watching and waiting, water becomes a seducer to the artistic soul. Water as a liquid canvas, silently awaits the light of life, for once united, only then, do they become brush and canvas to each other. Water in its form of puddle, slicks the street with imagery of reflection. Showers, falling from restless clouds release a dazzling array of diamond eyes when falling on still waters. Water from a hose pipe, a sprinkler in the garden, rain on the window, even showers in the bathroom offer opportunist moment of artistic merit.
Whispering winds across a still pond caress the surface just enough to reveal another journey of art and mind. Early morning to dusky light are favoured times to seek the unseen image, for light is then at its most acute angle with its shifted spectrum. I seek out the unique qualities of liquid symmetry that sometimes presents as part of the final composition. Every time I view a piece of art, I am acutely aware that we are all part of its journey. When we view art that touches us, more often than not, we want to be part of it and we want to share it. There are times when sharing is not enough, we may even want to own it, and even in the ownership of art, we want others be part of the sharing thus, the journey of art continues to feed the soul of humanity.
