Art installation in a room with a sky-themed ceiling, hanging weather vane forms, and small colorful photographs on light blue walls.
Multiple small abstract paintings on a light blue wall
A light blue wall with multiple abstract art prints in various sizes and colors arranged across it.
Watercolor painting of two blue curtains, a window with a view of cloudy sky, and a pink and gray floor.
Abstract watercolor painting with horizontal streaks of pink, purple, and cream colors
Abstract watercolor painting with red, yellow, blue, gray, and black colors blending together.
An abstract watercolor painting featuring horizontal blue, green, and purple stripes with a large semi-circular shape in the center.
Watercolor painting of a landscape with a dark cloudy sky, a bright yellowish-green horizon, and darker ground at the bottom.
Abstract watercolor painting with horizontal strokes in shades of brown, pink, gray, and purple.
Abstract watercolor painting with shades of blue, black, pink, yellow, and orange blending together.
Abstract watercolor painting with shades of blue and green with soft, flowing patterns.
Abstract watercolor painting with horizontal streaks in shades of yellow, green, blue, and beige.
Abstract watercolor painting with shades of blue, purple, and pink forming geometric shapes and wavy lines.

Let The Rain Settle In

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2024 | watercolor on paper
thirty-eight pieces, ten 11.75 × 9.5 inches (30 x 24 cm), twenty-eight 9.5 × 7 inches (24 x 18 cm)
Francis McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art, Silver City, New Mexico, USA

This series of watercolor paintings was created during the fast, wet, and furious seasonal shift of the monsoon and influenced by the varied patterns and effects that they can bring: flash flooding, dust storms, extreme lightning. At the same time, the monsoons also replenish local reservoirs, groundwater, and seasonal and perennial streamflows. This variability is difficult to understand and predict, because it results from the complex interactions between atmospheric circulation features and the extremely diverse topography. Melding notions of risk with replenishment, Let The Rain Settle In binds recent histories with potential futures amid a tenuous present existence between dry and wet worlds.