Get Mesmerized by ‘Water’
Water is what keeps humans running, and we have used, abused and marveled at it forever. Titled Water, a project by Edward Burtynsky presents a visual catalog of this most precious resource. It is currently on display at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery and Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City, and at the Flowers Gallery in London. The project has also spanned into a book and a feature documentary Watermark.
In the words of Edward Burtynsky:
While trying to accommodate the growing needs of an expanding, and very thirsty civilization, we are reshaping the Earth in colossal ways. In this new and powerful role over the planet, we are also capable of engineering our own demise. We have to learn to think more long-term about the consequences of what we are doing, while we are doing it. My hope is that these pictures will stimulate a process of thinking about something essential to our survival; something we often take for granted—until it’s gone.
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Via PDN, Kottke
