Nicole Steenhof

Description

Nicole Steenhof, (we are) water with skin on 2024, oil on canvas. Image courtesy the artist.

Artist’s Statement:

Drawing from my experiences of submersion within and coexisting beside the Indian Ocean, the painting evokes the sensation of water. It is fragmented and layered to echo the multiplicity of ways in which the water can be experienced ? with weight and buoyancy, density and aeration. This process has been propelled by a regard for the hydrocommons, a consideration of the recycled water that lubricates, nourishes, and cleanses the life that sets this planet apart from other known planets.