Earth’s Rivers Depart

In this Ink and cut paper series, I was pushing what I could do with this diaphanous Chinese calligraphy paper (called “Cicada Wing” paper)… painting the river in reverse on the back… attaching Indian marble paper on front and other papers on the reverse.  They are fragile, but that’s part of their presence.

The title outlines a fiction: what if the planet becomes so inhospitable to it’s waters that they just up and leave? What if they just got fed up with human predation and misuse? The anthropomorphizing is tongue in cheek, but the Earth’s waters are definitely not happy.

Below: The Ganges, The Mississippi, and The Nile