Waterfalls

Waterfalls exemplify impermanence. Although the water has distinct droplets within the form, it seems impossible to isolate it into parts as the water is rushing through gravity and appearing as a moving shape.

Creating with washi paper fiber allows me to use the energy flow of the water inherent to paper making to move and coax the pigmented paper fibers into a composition. This way of working is very much in the present.

Though I often prepare sketches before I pour a waterfall, there is a particular flow when the paper fiber hits the screen and begins to dance. Zen principles of beauty in simplicity and nature have a hand in creation, inform my work and give it context in contemporary art.

Sarah Brayer