Water has one colour. Time gives it the others.
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500gsm · 100% cotton · Hahnemühle Photo Rag · Archival pigment inks · 6 × 18 cm · Matte finish.
Cascades series · 19 of 20 different sets.
Catalogue Nº 093 of 100.
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Watch a thing for half a second and you see motion. Hold the same view for thirty seconds and the motion blurs into a shape that was not there. The river that looked grey at one glance is silver across a minute. The face of the friend across the table is one face for an instant and a slightly different face by the time the conversation is over. Time has its own developer. Hold the frame long enough and a different picture comes out.
A long exposure on a temperate hillside, the falls broken into a hundred small streams over wet stone. The motion has been held for thirty seconds. What stays is silver. The water itself, in the moment, was clear and fast. Held, it is something else.
Reads alongside Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, or any book read by water that has been moving long enough to have changed colour.
You hear a waterfall before you see it. The sound arrives from a few hundred metres away, lifts the trees a little, and gets louder as you walk in. Then the air changes. It gets cooler, the leaves are wet, and a fine mist settles on the lens and on your face. You stand at the foot of it for a minute, then five, and after a while you notice that the sound is not noise. It is white air, and the rest of your head is starting to clear.
