Water. It’s flexible, tangible, and yielding. It changes course or shape effortlessly and continues on its journey through adaptability. It can be quiet and still, loud and raging, cold and hard, or warm and soothing. It’s reflective yet it can be a dark abyss into which light is absorbed. It provides flexibility and resilience to the living things it nourishes, and through persistence it has shaped our landscape over time. In this exhibit, our artists explore what it means to be Like Water.
H2O Today is organized by the Smithsonian Institution and brought to you by Utah Humanities. H2O Today is part of Think Water Utah, a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and it partners.
Joy Brisighella
Our “Like Water” exhibit inspired me to search and gather water-related elements from my decades of collecting and travel. In doing so I have enjoyed marrying compatible elements, creating unique one of a kind pieces that embody our theme in traditional and non-traditional ways. Most of the elements I have used are one of a kind or extremely limited, not able to be duplicated.
Christine Garr Everything Glass
"reflecting water and the iridescence, swirling water...lots of movement and reflective like the waves in the ocean."
Lucy Peterson Watkins Fiber Expressions
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
Kristy South Studio South
Like water we ebb and flow in an unending wave of perfection
Blue Bowls 11.5 inches
Blue Bowls 11.5 inches
Scott Bushman
John Westenskow
" The pieces in this series are inspired by the life sustaining stone potholes of the southwest. Created from the same elemental materials. They echo the enduring cycles of life, freezing in time the movements and forces of nature that create both bowls and ethereal pools."
