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Zuriel Waters: Jello Moon

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I am a tree. An underwater tree.

They are clouds, of moon jellies perfectly buoyant, floating in air.

Water is air.

(wall is aquarium)

Water planet... water stars, Celestial ocean.

In these new works, I am exploring horizontality and bigness. A figure maker at my core (beings), I’ve always found the sideways a challenge:

‘Are they lying on the ground?’

‘No, they must float! As if caught mid-ascension.’

But now, I see them as clouds—gestalt landscapes contained within their own borders, demi-gods of the troposphere.

They have also begun to sprout eyes and stars — emerging similarly to light sensing dots on experimental brain organoids. They remind me of squid eyes, but without a face (more like potato eyes). The star is the negative space of four circles, a bauble, a dingbat decoration, and, of course, a Star — a bright circle that twinkles at a great distance (diffraction spikes).

As for color now, I’ve been...More expand_more

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Installation View of "Zuriel Waters: Jello Moon"
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Zuriel Waters: Jello Moon

Press Release
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I am a tree. An underwater tree.

They are clouds, of moon jellies perfectly buoyant, floating in air.

Water is air.

(wall is aquarium)

Water planet... water stars, Celestial ocean.

In these new works, I am exploring horizontality and bigness. A figure maker at my core (beings), I’ve always found the sideways a challenge:

‘Are they lying on the ground?’

‘No, they must float! As if caught mid-ascension.’

But now, I see them as clouds—gestalt landscapes contained within their own borders, demi-gods of the troposphere.

They have also begun to sprout eyes and stars — emerging similarly to light sensing dots on experimental brain organoids. They remind me of squid eyes, but without a face (more like potato eyes). The star is the negative space of four circles, a bauble, a dingbat decoration, and, of course, a Star — a bright circle that twinkles at a great distance (diffraction spikes).

As for color now, I’ve been...More expand_more

Exhibition Space
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529 W 20th St #6w, New York, NY 10011, USA
View all exhibitions in... New York, NY, US
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