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Return, 2017

Water and Time

20 x 40 x 20 inch

Dimension variable, melting over time

Return.

Capturing the stages of ice melting, Return evokes a paradoxical beauty where land and sky connect through the form of an ice boat. Douglas highlights the environmental interplay between sunlight and the gradual return of melted ice to the land, fostering a heightened awareness of place and transformation.

"Light, time and the connection from the land to sky melts in the form of an ice boat. By photographically ‘holding’ these stages of melt, the artist presents us with a paradoxical beauty that emerges from within the ever changing form. The rate of melt returns to the land in response to the sun. Here, the artist creates a poignant awareness of site and of the environment.The transference of the ice melting, liquefying back to itself and returning to its origin, that is, back to the landscape itself."

Melissa Bianca Amore, 2017

Selected Exhibition History

2014

Return, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, Sag Harbor, NY, United States

2015

Sun to Sun, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

2017

Sites of Knowledge, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, United States

2023

An Ocean In Your Hand (verse II), Artereal Gallery, Sydney