
Beauty of Water... Why Water?
We Love Water!
We believe that everyone is in love with water. Water is so fun! It is stunningly beautiful, sensual, cleansing, nourishing, calming, and restorative of well being, not to mention vitally important to all known life forms. We deeply wish to honor water itself through this project.
Why Do You Love Water?
The structure of life and the structure of water are essentially one and the same---a form of complex organized heterogeneity. The seemingly endless variety of lifeforms is due to water's extraordinary ability to shift shape with the subtlest input of energy and information.
- Biophysicist Beverly Rubik Ph.D.
Water is a connector as well as one of the most important political causes of today, for today. In some ways the issue of water seems so large but politically its very small--or at least can be dealt with at such a scale--at least to be able to begin to grasp and act.
- William Pope L.
Water has no enemy. We all need water and we all use water. Sometimes, we use water well but at other times we abuse and insult water, but water does not complain. Water is kind, compassionate, humble, gentle and very accomodating.
- Emmanuel, educator, leader, transformer, Nigeria
...I can not swim, there are lots of myths about water, but I like it because it is the source of life. We depend on water for our daily existence. I drink water first thing in the morning. There is nothing that can replace water.
- Peter, curator, sculptor, Cameroon
My theory is that water is the only thing in nature that can draw a straight line.
- Sebastian, artist, father, India
Water is everything. Water is life.
- Javier, lawyer, decorative fountain designer, Spain
What I love about water is that it always changes me. After a shower I feel new. Sitting by water I become calm.
- Sarah, actress, pet care store manager, USA
Water:
is life
origin of life
is that which shapes the earth and gives it beauty through its geology,
topography, flora and fauna
has a duality: soft and yielding, flowing, controllable, the source of
all
life; hard, powerful, destructive
is universal- scientists think of it as the sine qua non of any kind of
life.
- Tse-Sung, musician, environmental consultant, USA
Water and Art
- Basia Irland (see also Water Library)
- 1% WATER curated by Ilse Crawford and Jane Withers
- Ned Kahn
- Olafur Eliasson
- Gemma Bulos and A Single Drop
- Alicia Marván's Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology
- Windows to The River
- River of Words
- Eva Skold Westerlind
- Andy Goldsworthy
- India Flint
- Indira Freitas Johnson: Where Sky Meets Water
- Maya Lin: Confluence Project
- Shirley Jeffrey
- Betsy Damon: Living Water Garden
- Pamela Lawton: Making Art Everywhere: The Sri Lanka Art Project
- Play Pumps International