We are water, 2025
Mini installation
11.5” x 11.5” x 42” height
Components & Materials: Wood pedestal, artist book H2O, clear 100% recycled plastic bottle with sustainable bamboo lid (8.18”H X 2.87”W), stone, acrylic industrial paint.
H2O - Artist book
Closed format: 5 ½” x 5 ½“ x 1”
Opened format: 5 ½” x 10 ¾” x 1”
8 pages
Cover: wood panels covered with acrylic paint and cotton canvas embroidered with cotton crochet threads, all attached by a 100% polyester ribbon.
Contents: cotton canvas painted with acrylic industrial paint and embroidered with cotton crochet thread
Technique: artist book
Waccabuc, NY, USA
2025
Single edition
DESCRIPTION
On a white wood pedestal 11.5” x 11.5” x 30” height, stands a 100% recycled clear plastic bottle filled with 75% volume capacity of dirt water. A stone found at the artist’s outdoor home surrounds covered with red acrylic industrial paint lays on the top of the bamboo lid.
The artist book H2O is placed in front of the bottle. It contains 8 pages of cotton canvas primed and painted in white with acrylic paint. The pages have the following text embroidered with a black cotton crochet thread: “Water pollution is responsible for over a million deaths annually. About 1 to 4 people globally lacks access to safe drinking water. Approximately 71% of the Earth surface is covered with water. Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers. Water is the blood of Earth. The human body can be up to 75% water. We are water.”
