Name: Be Like Water
Format: Photography
Size: 30 x 30cm
Medium: White paint marker on black card
Description: A photography collage piece ising a macro lens. They are a series of photographs reflecting a piece of work that didn’t work and I could never finish, so after much contemplation I decided to reinvent it so it wouldn’t torment me and I could move on. I explored the canvas and took the most interesting shots I could find of the colours and paint interacting with each other, edited the photographs down and made this collage.
‘Be Like Water’ is a Bruce Lee quote from an interview he did when asked about his journey as a martial artist, actor and creative.
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
- Macro Lens
- Photography