"Urban Pools #159" 35" X 47" underwater archival pigment prints
Artist's Statement
Water and Weight
These images are a metaphor for emotional tensions, the daily
struggle between liberation and constraint. The figures move
through the blue fields of water, either celebrating a form of
weightlessness or caught by a net and trapped. The frame of the
camera establishes a space which is without horizon, the deep end
of the pool, modified by the grid of the net or the whisper of a phrase.
The images are made on film, transferred to digital format and printed
as large scale Iris Giclee prints on Hahnemuhle William Turner paper.
Kenda North is Professor of art at UT Arlington. Her work has been
exhibited internationally and is in major museum collection throughout
the U.S.
