In Three Ways Water Remembers, Gregory Evans distills the ocean into pattern, rhythm, and variation – order in chaos, and chaos in order.
The waves are stylized, reduced, symbolic – echoing abstraction traditions while maintaining movement and continuity. Each form mirrors the others yet remains distinct. The waves burst in anticipation. They stand and deliver. They have a journey, a destination – something to become, and something to return to.
This work sits firmly within Elemental Myth, where rhythmic natural forces become carriers of time and lesson. The ocean isn’t static. It lives. It reforms, reshapes, returns to itself. Waves are one with their source – drops of water in an ocean of water.
Three Ways Water Remembers invites quiet recognition – a reflection of the rhythms and patterns we’re all part of, whether we notice or not.
Originally done as a limited-edition set of monoprints done on textured watercolor paper with gouache paints.