REVIEW: Liz Ward in Glasstire
November 6, 2012 - Joshua Fischer
In Liz Ward’s series of watercolors on paper, glacial forms slowly diffuse and vanish, “ice balloons” condense and reverberate in intensifying concentric rings of color and detailed silverpoint drawings capture the delicate striations of ice core layers that record, like tree rings, climatic change. Contemplative, sublime and melancholic, Ward’s series resonates with the natural processes they depict through a sensitive and meticulous making, begging the bigger questions: What do we lose when we accelerate the destruction of our natural world, in this case the melting glaciers? Can art help us empathize with the natural world and perhaps even help restore our sense of connection to it?...
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