Fluid Moments is a
visual exploration of the relationship of transience and permanence in art. The original
“painting” for each work was short lived, enduring in its liquid state for only
a few seconds. The images I recorded with the camera are the two-dimensional records of
three-dimensional fluid works that ceased to exist almost as soon as I created them. Each
photograph, however, has become a distinct, and now more permanent, work in its own right.
These images are the only trace of the original artwork’s short-lived existence and
exemplify the role of art in creating the illusion of permanence in a transitory world.
My technique is related to the traditional
Japanese suminagashi monoprint or floating ink technique, but I use a camera to capture
the floating design I create instead of paper. I created the original liquid works by
layering and manipulating water-soluble dyes and watercolors on canvases of various
liquids. Each work is the result of an intuitive creative process with no preconceived
idea of the final work. My choice of colors and how I manipulated them was an outward
expression of myself at a particular moment in time, which I then captured in a
photograph. The resulting images have a fluidity of line and layering of colors that would
be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve in more traditional painting mediums. Many of
the images have a Rorschach-like representational quality that invites viewers to impose
their own interpretation on what are essentially abstract works. Stylistically, these liquid paintings are
reminiscent of Expressionist, Abstract Expressionist and Lyrical Abstractionist works
of the 20th Century.
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