The title of my thesis is Water Issues, Planes of Immanence. ‘Planes of Immanence’ refers to a Deleuzian poetic concept where the “plane of immanence is surrounded by illusions, by thought's mirages, that rise from the plane itself like vapors from a pond.”
Water currently acts as a refuse site rather than a refuge. Arising is a renewing collective force that is reinvesting water with ancient awe and reverence, new repairs and resolutions. I focus my attention on potentials.
My work physically consists of a multi-media reverberating crystalline structure. A 12-foot photographic panoramic triptych of a power plant with fore-grounded swimmers faces a 4-foot horizon panoramic image with solar/sun energy. Three 3-foot dual photographic panoramas of superimposed lights on water interplay with juxtaposed fire/water, oranges/blues, abstract/representation.
There are two video components, the first consists of a high definition shoreline pan horizontally paired with a close-up HD shot of a Tibetan Singing bowl filled with water. The singing vibrations are making the water leap out of the bowl vertically toward the shoreline. The projection is displayed on a curved translucent plexiglas screen.
The second video piece ‘Water Songs’, consists of 12 videos divided into a crystalline mosaic projected down onto a large oval of water. Sound moves between the 12 videos in a predetermined symbolic mathematical pattern. The four video triads consist of elements, sources; movement and distortion.
A reprinted Water Horizons Dual book of 108 pages consisting of 17 water panoramas will be available. Access to many further facets of ‘Water Issues’ found at:
iwhist.wordpress.com.