UC Irvine

During the making of the sculptures for this exhibition, I held in my mind what I identified as the poetic epochs of water: circulation, contamination, filtration, elimination, and renewal. These poetic epochs are imagined. They dance around and between the stages identified as the water cycle, or hydrologic cycle: collection, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. These poetic epochs relate water with psychological cycles of processing emotions and experience. A cyclical nature is something that both humans and water share. Water, in its many forms, and as a living society of forms, offers us opportunities for transformation. We can become something else in our relationship to water. Sometimes our cycles can be vicious, but the momentum of the cycle is what makes us all creatures in and of motion, and in motion there is opportunity for change. Feeling into hydrosystemic entanglements for an expression of extensive connectedness, I’ve been re-evaluating ecological values, with cosmological aspirations. I am now convinced all the world is a fountain and people merely transports for water.