{"id":24433,"date":"2023-02-06T13:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=24433"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:28:24","slug":"the-structure-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/the-structure-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"The structure of water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Water is a vital nutrient to life on earth: it\u2019s our first building material, making up around 60 percent of the human body. It\u2019s also often no less vital to the act of artistic creation, for example, we could think of the human body as analogous to a body of work, with water as the essential life-force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Japanese water-scientist Dr Masaru Emoto who once said water is a \u201cblueprint for our reality\u201d, and made it his life\u2019s work to prove that human consciousness can affect the molecular structure of water. He used a microscopic camera to photograph ice crystals made in glasses of water that he\u2019d expose to different \u2018energies\u2019. Mysteriously, words like \u2018I love you\u2019 and \u2019thank you\u2019 created intricately beautiful ice crystals, whereas words like \u2018evil\u2019 or \u2018fool\u2019 created vague, undone formations. With a less scientific, but no less insightful approach, we\u2019ve thought about these experiments in relation to art and its ability to not only use water as material, but also investigate the meaning of water itself. As an elixir, as a mythological symbol, or as capturing movement and fragile emotional energy, our artists\u2019 pieces show water as inextricable from the human condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See Angelika Biller\u2019s investigations into opacity and voids through watercolour, reminiscent of both Rorschach ink blot tests and deep space wonders that continually challenge our consciousness. Or feel awe at Sarah Harvey\u2019s surreal-yet-realist studies into light-play on water, using oil paint to masterfully evoke a pool of water, biblical in its proportions and significance. Elsewhere, Orla Kane\u2019s intimate oil paintings depict the ethereality of water in pastels and dark blues reminiscent of Milton Avery\u2019s abstract landscapes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, these works think through the mystical properties of water with sensitivity and flare. So let your mind drift and flow\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artworks can be purchased with an interest free loan. Selected OwnArt at checkout.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Hiding & Escaping II\u00a0Fangying Lu, \u00a31850<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Die Reise Nach Innen by\u00a0Angelika Biller, \u00a3230<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Landscape in Lull by Sophie Perkins, \u00a31250<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Forty (Wedding Flowers) by Sarah Rachael, \u00a3355<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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LUDO\u00a0Jo Hummel, \u00a32750<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Ride Along (Small Infinities V.)\u00a0Jan Valik, \u00a3380<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Untitled – (Watford Reflection)\u00a0Janine Hall, \u00a3750<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Underwater Swim\u00a0Gil Bourget, \u00a31500<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Midnight Walk\u00a0Lily Senner, \u00a3400<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Untitled by\u00a0Magdalena Gluszak – Holeksa, \u00a3600<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Light Within\u00a0Sarah Harvey, \u00a314,000<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Blue Goddess by\u00a0Conor Gray, \u00a31000<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Come With Me\u00a0Georgina Saunderson, \u00a3850<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Dart-Swarm\u00a0Sara Willett, \u00a32400<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Tidal Surge II\u00a0Jade Bowmer, \u00a3695<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Fast Waters\u00a0Orla Kane, \u00a3360<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Reflection Landscape #20 (Old Bridge)\u00a0Carlos San Millan, \u00a3580<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Druistone Haven, July 10th 2021\u00a0Michaela Hollyfield, \u00a3525<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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