What if we lived in a world that saw water as holy, alive, and worthy of devotion like we do the gods of human likeness? How would that change our understanding of water? How would that change our understanding of God? How has the depiction of God as a masculine figure in our Christian-dominated Western society affected our relationship with the feminine?
"If Water Was God" imagines a new world of reverence and caring devotion to the waters that run around and through us. It looks critically at the dominant religions of our time and how those have shaped our worldview and fostered a disconnection from nature and distance from a personal, empowered spirituality.
These images invite the viewer to reconsider the gods and heroes of our current paradigm and start looking for inspiration outside our human stories. If water was God, we could see ourselves in her reflection. We could reimagine our story as thirst quenchers, life givers, essential and connected to all life on earth.
“The image is a dream, the beauty is real. Can you see the difference?” -Richard Bach, Illusions
