images of water at the waa
monday, july 16th, 7pm
6 buck at door
snacks and culture inside
Why Water; Why Water Music ?
Water has fascinated my eyes and ears for years. I never tire of
watching and photographing the way light and color ****mmer and change
on the surface of rivers, oceans or lakes. Light does more than
accentuate the viscosity and drama of waterâ¤s surfaces; water, as we
know it, is inseparable from light.
Although water is relatively clear, it often draws its colors
from the world and sky that surround it. Water can seem to violate that
principle, however, and also sparkle with colors that donâ¤t appear in
its environment. On a damp, foggy, dark day in Maine, the waters I
captured through my lens were swirled with patterns of bright turquoise
and silver. On a clear, blue-sky, cloudless, sunny day, the waters of
Wa****ngton Stateâ¤s Puget Sound looked exactly like frothing black
marble.
Water has many faces, many forms, many mysteries. Sailors or
passengers on a ferry across any large lake at sunset on a clear summer
evening can watch the lakeâ¤s surface turn from blue to gold, copper,
blazing red, pink, pewter and⤲finally⤲to black. Throughout its
changes, the lakeâ¤s surface glistens like slippery satin or highly
polished metals. Waterâ¤s constantly evolving shapes mirror archetypal
forms repeated throughout the rest of nature. Perfect spirals are
formed on the inside edges of waves. Tiny whirlpools trail from the
ends of a canoe paddle. When raindrops land on a riverâ¤s surface, the
rings that expand outward are perfectly round, in spite of the
riverâ¤s swirling currents. Each circle of rings crosses into other
approaching rings and, amazingly, no only do the rings⤠shapes stay
intact after passing through others but also the rings themselves
remain in the same place on the river, relative to the viewer, while
the river continues to flow downstream under them. Watching such
seeming violations of the laws of physics is like witnessing magic.
Water can be powerful, soothing, sensual, beautiful and
frightening. Its variety is endless. Like much of the rest of the
non-human world, water has no regard for the destruction and terror it
can cause or for the intense, positive emotions it can stimulate in
viewers. It destroys and it heals. The majority of each human body is
made from water. It is our primary nutrient. No life form survives
without it.
Water is both transient and eternal. I could spend my entire life
photographing water, and never capture the full variety of its essence,
grandeur or diversity.
Marjorie Ryerson
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