Trend influencers summer 2011:
All things are water...
Water is increasingly becoming a luxury commodity with the threat of drought and flood, as well as its ability to provide power and sustenance. Fascinated by the way light and shadow on water transforms colour and creates deeply compelling watery tones. Apply chemicals to water to create a light-infused translucent palette.
The artist Roni Horn takes water as the endpoint of all existence for her water images: “When I look at water I’m entering into an event of relation. Rather than an object, water becomes a form — of consciousness, or time, of physicality, of the human condition, of anything I desire to project on it, of anything I want it to be”.