

This is Water
Vernon Public Art Gallery
Curated by Lubos Culen
07/28/2022 – 10/26/2022
Catalogue essay written by Maggie McKenney

48” x 72” oil on canvas
This is Water
I’ve been thinking a lot about water.
To float down the river effortlessly
And break away from thought
form and distraction.
To play in tune with the vibrating strings of You.
Continuously I tell myself, be water.
Through the city I observe the banal.
Concrete walls constructed to contain
Lifting us up from one prefabricated structure
to the next and I struggle to breathe
Plan your escape, I hear her say.
I feel the urgency to stand at ocean’s edge.
Be water. This is water, I hear You say.
I look across to you and
You are the only one
Drinking coffee.
The parking lot is empty and we no longer
talk about the weather.
I leave you and I move through space
Continuing the search for stability;
The foundations of Being beyond being in-itself
And I know.
Be water. This is water.

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*Photographs provided by Yuri Akuney