This work was done on Governors Island, in August 2018, during a residency with Underwater New York and Works on Water. I made these paintings in honor of the Lenape native people, who originally settled the New York City Harbor before Europeans arrived. I came to understand that they had a profound appreciation for this land, reflected in the way they respected it and revered it as divinely created. As creator of these works, I tried to relinquish control of the paint in order to let natural consequences determine the outcome of the process.

All of this work was made with water collected on Governors Island