Christo Braun

openwater #1

47h x 51w, framed
2005

This is the first composition I made with resin on steel. Based upon my inquiry into the diversity of this new medium and the realm of imagery that it invoked within me, openwater #1 has led to fifty-three more. Water in all its variety has always fascinated me: the ways that it makes me feel when I am immersed in it, when I gaze upon it, how it mesmerizes me as it moves, its incredible relationship with color and translucency, time and temperature, emotion and sensation …you get the picture. And am glad to see it so wonderfully framed, something I was always curious about.