Water

This week I am working on a project about 'water'. To start it I went back to making a Gelli Plate, as I like the unexpected effects and the removal of the dreaded 'white paper'. The only problem is when the prints are too nice and you don't want to ruin them and you are back full circle to the 'white paper' problem.
I got round this problem by scanning the prints so that I had a few copies and could make mistakes and make mistakes I did, it is a vital part of the process.
I now have two solutions, I need a total of three and I want to give myself a selection to narrow down.

Before I go to bed now I am writing a few words, thoughts, poems or a diary entry, I find it helps me to both focus and unwind at the end of the day. I mind mapped 'water' and thought of the salty ocean and of tears and then remembered the project which has found that different tears have a very different appearance under the microscope.

Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher has been recording the Topography of tears, the different structures of tears cried for different reasons,  by examining and photographing dried tears under an electron microscope.

                    Above: Laughter Tears, Below: Onion Tears

    Below: Tears of grief.

“Tears are the medium of our most primal language in moments as unrelenting as death, as basic as hunger and as complex as a rite of passage, it’s as though each one of our tears carries a microcosm of the collective human experience, like one drop of an ocean.” Rose-Lynn Fisher

I love this, it makes me wonder at the complexity of things we take for granted, things as yet unquestioned and unknown.

Cendrine Rovini

This is the surreal work of French artist Cendrine Rovini who's illustrative work has an almost eerie watery quality, I like the way her figures emerge from large blocks of colour.

Heidi Welelsen Goksoyr

Top and Middle: Himmelrom , 2007 Bottom: Under the Surface
Norwegian Photographer Heidi Welesen Goksoyr, produces beautiful photography mainly themed around water. Take a look at her website the sky space (Himmelrom) black and white photos are great.

Theo Jansen I

Theo Jansen http://www.strandbeest.com/index.html has long been a hero of mine, ever since I first saw his amazing creatures in a Sunday supplement. He is an artist, sculptor/ inventor, who has since 1990 been involved with the creation and evolution of a whole genus of self propelled beasts. Many of these 'creatures' have been designed to roam the beeches of the Netherlands independently. Some can store wind power others have evolved sensitivity to water and can move away from the incoming tide.

His creations are phenomenal and fill you with childlike wonder and awe. have a look, experience being a child again...