Cartography Dissolving Into Tides
Artist’s Statement This piece emerged from fragments of memory that haunted me—scattered emails from the early 2000s, glimpses of technological ambition and human connection across vast distances. I kept returning to that image of islands, artificial constructs imposed on water, and how quickly nature renders our precision irrelevant. I chose the aerial perspective to mirror that god’s-eye view we imagine we have over our own plans. The rigid geometry represents our hunger to order the world, to map and control it. But watercolor was essential—its unpredictability is honest in a way hard lines can never be. The pigment bleeds where I cannot contain it, just as oceans reclaim what we build. ...