Water, Agent of Life

July 8th, 2026

Make it stand out

Dissolving and re-solving forms into forms
Slipping imperceptibly between streams
Perceptibly changing the world in her
Weavings and un-weavings

Dear friends and family,

I want to share some very good news. After years of searching for the right partners to move Waters Alive forward, I have found extraordinary collaborators in Canada, including a chemical engineer with access to both lab and fabrication facilities. This means that we are now preparing to begin building and testing the first sculptural prototypes for living waters.

This is a major step for the project. For many years, I have believed that water has its own creative agency, and that if we learn to work with its living dynamics, water can help restore itself without relying only on large engineered systems or harsh chemical interventions. To begin testing that belief in a serious way feels thrilling to me.

If you enjoy outrageous beauty, check out the work from my latest exhibition, Water, Agent of Life, now on my website. These works are deeply connected to Waters Alive. They come from the same place in me, from a desire to honor the infinite creativity of water, and to make visible something of the force that generates and sustains life. The exhibition had a beautiful opening, and I was glad to collaborate with my dear friend Nicole Peryafitte.

Supporting the exhibition by buying a work on paper is one way to help bring Waters Alive into being, practically enabling my next steps toward building water-based cleaning sculptures. If you are still skeptical, stay tuned — I welcome that too. I will keep revealing the powers of water to generate and restore life. As Waters Alive comes into being, I hope that more and more people will be inspired by the possibilities presented in this work, which lie in restoring our relationships to the living systems that sustain us.

Love is water—

Betsy

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