WATERLINE

“…finding beauty in the patterns, and concentrations of colours
and textures, isolated by retreating water”

Satellite imagery and photographs dating back to the mid twentieth century, are indisputable evidence of the transformation and disintegration of some of the world’s largest lakes, shallow seas, and desert planes; in some cases losing up to 90 % of their surface area. They are an urgent reminder of a rapidly changing global weather system and the problem of overstretched water resources, in marginal areas of the globe. Shrinking pools, stratified water marks etched into the landscape, dehydrated water bodies collecting in isolated pockets, and the enriched colours of hyper-saline waters, bordering terracotta planes, serve as a powerful source of inspiration for the Waterline series of imagery. Much of the brilliance of Revell's work is in the extraordinary detail and ambiguity of scale, microscopy or aerial photographs. The work explores the changing state of liquids, finding beauty in the patterns, and concentrations of colours and textures, isolated by retreating water.