These works are ink wash landscapes made with a water that can no longer be called natural. The washes are painted with ultrapure water, the same chemically stripped liquid that rinses wafers and cools fabrication plants. It is water so thoroughly cleaned that nothing can live in it, enlisted entirely into industry. In the paintings it becomes almost invisible, what you see is the residue of ink, not the water itself. The landscapes are drawn by a liquid that has been evacuated of landscape.




Each image sits on an SMT aluminum frame, the stencil normally used to print solder paste for PCB production. The valley, the dam, the terraced field are laid over a tool designed for routing currents across a board. Hydraulic earthworks rest on the negative of an electronic circuit. Behind the frame, a video of water plays very quietly, its light and shadow slipping through the stencil. The animation is almost imperceptible, like breath. The wetness and the intelligence is not only in the motif of reservoirs and spillways, but in this slow, regulated shimmer of water behind the mask.