These are not pictures of water, but conversations with it. In this dialogue, water becomes a metaphor, embodying the essence of time, fluid, inexorable, transformative. To photograph water is to grasp at an elusive current only to realize that what is seen is but a fragment of what exists. Like time, water is both eternally present and forever slipping away, caught in the dance between being and becoming. Attempting to hold time is like holding water in your hands. A fools errand resulting only in a grotesque approximation that feels nothing like it did in the moment.
Duke Hall Fine Arts Gallery
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
May 2025