Wave

Cast recycled glass

In Wave, I explored the phenomenological qualities of water and the possibility of understanding it as a carrier of memory. I was interested in water as more than a physical substance: something experienced, observed and associated with the passage of time. Reading Masaru Emoto's The Hidden Messages in Water and The Secret Life of Water prompted questions about the relationship between water, memory and experience.

These ideas developed alongside my interest in water as an environmental and cultural record. The photographic work of Edward Burtynsky and Robert William Sandford's writing on glaciers and changing freshwater landscapes offered different perspectives on the relationship between water, human activity and environmental change.

Using recycled glass, I translated the movement and fluidity of water into a series of wall-mounted forms. Colour, transparency and distortion became ways of suggesting movement within a material that, once cast, had become still. The work considers what materials might hold, what they might communicate, and how our understanding of something as familiar as water can shift through closer attention.

Collection: Alberta Foundation for the Arts

https://alberta.emuseum.com/people/7429/ciara-jayne-hossack/objects