n Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes evoked the joy that floods
can provoke:
“Despite the difficulties or disasters it might have caused for thousands in France, the flood of January 1955 partook of festivity far more than of catastrophe. First of all, it displaced certain objects, refreshing our perception of the world by introducing into it certain unaccustomed and yet explicable points...Paradoxically, the flood has created a more accessible world, manipulable with the kind of pleasure children take in wielding their toys, exploring and enjoying them.”
Flooding is just one way earth overlaps with water. Water and land are inextricably linked. But water only exists in relation to solids, from which it takes any shape or form, with the exception of droplets. In this work, sometimes solids give shape to the water;
and at others, water gives shape to solids, like the currents that, for example, polish pebbles.
These overlappings present multiple games through their formal creations; even floods can be festive. These photographs and sculptures capture the creation of forms –
their morphogenesis – precisely like festive events.