Water Cycle / Basia Irland

Identifier:FA.B111.2043

Dimensions:6 x 4 in; 15 x 10 cm

Creation dates:1985 – 1996

Description:Sixteen bound postcard-sized images of Basia Irland's work related to water. "This is a sampling of works honoring water. It is a moist song cycle, a praise poem formed of sixteen raindrops during an evening storm. I have explored aspects of water for two decades. Water condenses, vaporizes, freezes and boils; it flows, stagnates and engages in capillary action. We are water and it is us. Each image in this set of sixteen has been extracted from a larger whole. For example, three of the pieces are part of an ongoing 'Wilderness Book Series,' comprising over fifty sculptures. 'Salt Boat' is one of forty-three suspended in an installation. Among the many related projects not shown are numerous performance works includes 'water/peace,' created with composer Christopher Shultis. I am currently writing a novel about a library of waters and facilitating a two year, grassroots, community-based project, 'A Gathering of Waters,' along the 1,875 mile length of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo." -- colophon