While trying to represent the fluctuations in the clouds with water, the brush took the force and dispersed it along the paper, as if the watercolor itself is blowing in this bounded frame. The strong effect of the colors is absorbed by the thick mould of the paper and eventually faded away, just like the wind. With layers on top of each other, it’s allowed to show many flows in one perspective. The distinction between what is on front and what’s on the back seems to evanish, for one cannot find orientation in a storm. The time that I had to wait between the layers allowed me to imagine how my different brush movements will end up drying. Technically, what I discovered was the effect of saltwater on the paper, as it creates cristallized channels of paint as it dries. This gave opportunity to a self-emerging pattern of storm, somehow designed but unforeseenable at the same time as I cannot know for sure how it’ll dry at the end.
acts of drawing 