Imagine life as a microscopic aquatic creature in the season of beginnings. Eden Waters is digitally composited from manipulated video captures of life in fresh water taken from a muddy stream in the Hudson Valley, in June, 2013, just as the ground and waters began to warm. The layers of teaming life represent represent the emergence of life in the early spring of our Earth. They also simulate the imagined experience of swimming through the water, as well as the artist’s own experience of focusing through the microscope, going from mud to discovering amazing lifeforms, to later viewing only bacteria as the freshwater plankton disappeared in the warmth of the laboratory. The work was begun during the "Art Kibbutz" artist residency.  The actual video micro-captures were done in the lab with small drops of water from the source. All imagery was found, digitized, and modified by Cynthia Beth Rubin.

 

Music: Composed and arranged by Bob Gluck
Vocals by Zoe Zak

 

Screenings

2014 Dance with the Earth, Art Kibbutz exhibition, Governor’s Island NY, NY

2014 Under the Viaduct: West Harlem Art Fund New York NY July

 

Artist Talks

LISA series, 2015 NY, NY

ISEA 2014 Dubai, UAE