Katie Voyt

Fire and Water

Inspired by: Harvey Sadow, Fire and Flood/Sacred Sites

acrylic on canvas

19″ x 15″

2023

Fire and water are powerful natural phenomena. It is impossible to underestimate their impact on human life. It is huge – in fact there is no life without fire and water. They are mutually destructive – fire will boil the water away to nothing, just as water will extinguish the fire. Water and fire are fundamentally opposite: water is naturally wet and cold while fire is dry and hot. Water falls, fire rises. Nevertheless these opposites are united by their ability to decimate everything around. At the same time this destruction clears the way for nature to regenerate and renew.

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