Credo
I believe in the energy of art,
and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability
to transform his or her life...and the life of others
(Flack, Audrey, May 1984)

Water reflections is the first of three installation-projects on The Nature of the Self: Liquid, light, and earth  (or the three basic elements water, fire, and soil).

        Water reflections’ art project was inspired by the thought provoking characteristics of living waters. Water as one of the several natural elements, which allows us to submerge into a contemplative state. Waters in movement: lake, river, sea waters, and waterfalls. Waters full of life and non-predictable, changing waters. Water as a source of life. Water as a metaphor of the self.  Water images, perceived and transformed into inner images, as reflection of the inner self.

Reality is something we perceive with all our senses. Images are created in our minds by resemblance or association. Images not necessarily identifiable with the real object that provoked them. These are emotional images, subjective images. Images charged of feelings, sensory perceptions, thoughts, words, non-words, and all other sort of emotions. Indescribable images to be translated into artworks.

This artwork, as stated before, relates to the idea of water as source of life. Life/water in continuous movement, change, transformation, and regeneration. Repeated events happening one after the other, again and again, and yet always different. The cycle of water, the cycle of thought, the cycle of life, everything regenerates and transforms in the big central event of life. 

The outside and the inside becomes one. Through the contemplative, and meditative state that is provoked by this piece. 
 

 The Project
 
 

This artwork is constructed by sounds (two different sound tracks playing at once repeatedly), a video projection playing endlessly onto the central screen of a circle of five hanging free screens. And as a documentation of the creative process a portfolio of 25 collages of black and white photographs with mono-prints accompanies the exhibition together with an artist's book (twelve screen prints and one monotype).

The sound track is composed by two different sounds: a prolonged vibrato that represents the thoughts, and a constant heart bit representing life, pace, both combined evoke the imaginary inner sound of the self. 

The video-projection is based on a video recording of waters slowed down until it embodies the rhythm of the heart bit, frame by frame, appearing as an ultrasound of the womb or an introspective image of body fluids. This video is projected into a screen that seems ephemeral, so it recreates perception of the inner world, an inner view of the self.

The sculptural image given by the set of screens installed in an open circle represents my body, and where the video-projection is been screened. The installation architecture functions as a metaphor of the cycle of life, circular-endless, but a life that is yet in constant construction portrayed by the four blank screens. 

As ambience light blue lights were chosen to depict water's colour and soften the atmosphere in order to make it more relaxed and allow the viewer to have its own meditative-contemplative experience.