Passage of Time Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition at Washington State University Pullman, Washington May 2011
This exhibition explores water movement and evaporation as a means of painting. While photos capture the instantaneous beauty of pigments meeting and intertwining in water, the paintings are residual. Stained by layers of pigmented water, they are no longer vivid pools, teaming with pigment, but a watermark of what once was, a dry riverbed. In this way, the paintings represent memory and the passage of time. As pigments mix, the ebb and flow creates a moving image that I can manipulate and photograph. Seeing the event is like watching something bloom in real time. However, the images cease quickly, changing, mixing, settling, and finally evaporating completely.