Embrace I, 2005 (Primary Title)
Watering (Series Title)
Elijah Gowin, American, born 1967 (Artist)
Gowin’s Watering series presents individuals and groups of believers engaged in the baptismal ceremony. The grainy surfaces, distorted colors, anddark frames add mystery to otherwise mundane views of an ostensibly ecstatic experience. Gowin combines handcrafted techniques and digital technology to make his work. He begins by using editing software to alter amateur Internet photographs. Thesenew images are then printed as small paper negatives, hand cut, and scanned, producing a distressed and ambiguous final work.
number 1 from an edition of 15
Gift of the Artist
© Elijah Gowin
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