Tag: Events at Earth Art Studio

About the Art:

Presented as a series of hand-built ceramic forms, “sed/thirst” unfolds as a fragmented hydrological landscape inspired by springs, wells, arroyos, reservoirs, rain, and subterranean aquifers. Each piece reflects a different state of water in our desert environment —contained, pure, stagnant, evaporated, filtered, seasonal, flowing, abundant, withheld. 

The installation functions as a quiet commentary on water scarcity inviting viewers to reflect on the human impulse to capture, control, and commodify what is necessarily fluid and cyclical. The pieces suggest that the precious water that lies beneath the surface is not infinite, depth does not guarantee abundance. Our thirst remains. Thirst, here, is both a warning and an invitation: a call to reconsider how we draw from what cannot be replaced, or if we should take at all.

We will be sharing each of the artists participating in our current exhibition H2O through our blog series, Artists Sharing Artists, so you can learn a little more about them and their artwork. If you’d like to come see the show in person, please check out our pop-up event schedule and/or book a private tour with us! If you’d like to purchase work, please contact us!

About the Art:

Have you ever done something and been surprised by how such a seemingly small act can affect so many other people or things? Like the tides shape the shoreline of our Baja beaches, one movement pushes and forms the next. The “ripple effect” is best known by examples such as a rock thrown in the water: the concentric circles formed around it continue to expand outward and distort according to any other forces at work.

Here in our beautiful desert of Las Playitas we have witnessed changes in the landscape resulting from the recent growth of the real estate market. Virgin desert forests are clear-cut to gain a better view of the ocean or to make way for a construction site. Roads are cut, widened and graded, fences are built, leaving less and less of a grazing area for the herds of cows and goats that rely on it for a good portion of their food source. Many species of animals, reptiles and insects lose their homes. Water paths and cycles are altered, and all of this affects the ecosystem and eventually our environment.

Having awareness of our actions, our words and our thoughts is crucial to how we affect our friends, strangers we encounter, the paths we follow, and in the long run, the planet. The ripple effect is physics – physical science – that we can actually see. 

Art imitates life. This painting was made starting at the right-hand side with the light pink stripe. I tried my best to paint a straight, continuous stripe of the same width (based on the brush), trying not to lift the brush except to dip into the paint. When my hand wavered or I fumbled the brush, I let that be a record of the process – the accidents and missteps of life. With each stripe that followed in a different color, I followed the edge of the previous stripe so that, very gradually, the ripple effect emerged.