Source: Material Culture and Water

Terms and Objects:

~ water bed
~ water table
~ water board
~ water boy
~ wishing well
~ pitcher/ewer
~ bath tub
~ wash basin/sink
~ aquarium
~ water faucet
~ bubble maker/bubble wand
~ fountain
~ baptismal font
~ toilet
~ toy boat

Source: Works of Art and Water

Kanagawa Hokusai

JMW Turner

Clifford Ross

Gustave Courbet

Source: Tsunami Hits Japan

Woke up early this morning and, for some reason, checked my Facebook News Feed right away. Saw that my friend Junko was reporting about the quake/tsunami and was okay but she was stuck at her office. She reported that she could not go home because all transportation in Tokyo had come to a halt. Powerful evidence of the destructive nature of water!

Source: Contributions

From Amy Mac...Thanks!

This is water in an old cistern located near Hastings, Nebraska. I must have taken hundreds of photos--the reflections were so gorgeous and full of frogs and salamanders. The area is old farmland in a riparian bog that is being reclaimed and returned to nature by a not-for-profit foundation called Prairie Loft.

Click Here for Prairie Loft Website

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

Source: Drawings by Robert Gould

 

 

Ebenezer Drawings- "Black Water" Creating Space  by Robert Gould

 

I had some time to work on a collection of drawings last week. I started thinking about Ebenezer Creek again. I was looking at some photographs of a set up I did, and trying to figure out how to enhance the story telling elements. I want to create a emotion of the events there, an “atonement”, a non-literal representation. I thought about drawing over the photographs but I still haven’t found a convincing process yet. This time I am looking for a more abstract image. I started playing around with images of water. In particular the wave patterns on the surface. I have arranged the following drawings in the order that they were created.

All these drawings are on paper grocery bags. One group of drawings is in oil sticks and oil paint on top of prepared paper. The second group is Conti crayon, sumi ink, white house paint, & tempera paint. In the first session the work evolved in two stages. First stage I worked with images of water waves viewed as if you were under the water or from the side, looking forward. The first drawing I also placed a rock like form in the center. The sunken Ebenezer. 

Second Photo Shoot (March 8)