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La Carreta News
The Color of Water
(A
photographic and watercolor exhibition, Rift Gallery Contemporary Art, was March 4 - April 6, 2006)
by
Sylvia Ernestina Vergara
(A visual interplay of watercolor and
photography)
The Color of
Water
is a visual interplay of 15 watercolor and photographic
impressions. The idea of water, a seemly colorless substance -- its
mere presence in a conducive context draws out color, form and
life itself. So, the enigma of a colorless substance is "that
which creates." Water, a life giving substance, is the medium
for the artist, Sylvia Ernestina Vergara, visually, textually and
creatively as subject to inspire thought, emotion and action
through art. With watercolor and photography, Vergara reflects
upon the volatile nature of water -- its most magical quality -- its
transformative nature as it transitions from liquid to vapor to
snowflake to ice to crystal to cloud and rain drop. Also, the
intimate relationship as a human being to water -- we are water 90
plus percent, blood, sweat, liquid through which all our chemical
and electrical reactions take place. Also -- water as movement -- a
substance that is never still, but constantly journeying, moving,
dancing and in a process of constant change and yet "water is
water" -- that which never changes in its most basic elemental
form.
The
exhibition will include watercolors made with organic substances
such as red Chile, juice from wild cherries and pure apple cider
syrup that Vergara generally uses when she is creating her
culinary artistic product line of preserves, syrups and vinegars
from the fruits of her orchard.
Included in the presentation will be poetry, essay and
inspirations drawn from the process of creating each individual
work. The photographic process will include 35-mm photos, gicleé
methodology, scans, investigations in color, black and white and
computer embellishments sometimes separate and also merged with
hand created watercolor imaging. Central to the exhibit will be
the primary element -- actual water. The color is that seen in the
photos and watercolors and also the imagined photos that art
viewers create in their own minds from their own personal
experience of water.
Sylvia
Ernestina Vergara resides in Dixon, New Mexico and draws her
inspiration for her art from nature and irrigating, nurturing an
orchard and harvesting. She has recently (Dec 2005-January 2006)
completed an exhibition of 40 photographs, self-published books
and culinary art (preserves, syrups and vinegars) from her
company, La Carreta at a one-woman show called La Carreta (in transit) at
the Historic Bond House Museum in Española. She is a featured
artist in the February issue of New
Mexico Magazine 2006. Vergara’s photograph,
“Hands
and Cherries” is the feature artwork on the Dixon Art Tour
Poster for 2005.
For
more information call: 1-505-579-4358
or 1-505-579-9179
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