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Don't Say There Is No Water

Don't Say There Is No Water

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Don't Say There Is No Water, 44 x 30 inches, acrylic ink, water soluble crayon, and polymers on BFK Rives Paper, framed.

Each piece in this series begins with me handwriting the words from a female poet's poem about water. This act of writing the words helps me dive deeper into the meaning of the piece and my response to it, based on my own life experience. I then seal the words to make them permanent, but I also cover them with many layers of paint and/or ink to connote how women's voices tend to be obscured in the arts. Yet the words are still there, and can never truly be lost.

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Inspired by Denise Levertov's poem "The Fountain":⁠
⁠
Don't say, don't say there is no water⁠
to solace the dryness at our hearts.⁠
I have seen⁠
⁠
the fountain springing out of the rock wall⁠
and you drinking there. And I too⁠
before your eyes⁠
⁠
found footholds and climbed⁠
to drink the cool water.⁠
⁠
The woman of that place, shading her eyes,⁠
frowned as she watched -- but not because⁠
she grudged the water,⁠
⁠
only because she was waiting⁠
to see we drank our fill and were⁠
refreshed.⁠
⁠
Don't say, don't say there is no water.⁠
That fountain is there among its scalloped⁠
green and gray stones,⁠
⁠
it is still there and always there⁠
with its quiet song and strange power⁠
to spring in us,⁠
⁠
up and out through the rock

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