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Using an old word with new meaning, I call my art style FLUIDISM.

Fluidism is fluid flow art. Fluidism is fluid dynamic art. Fluidism is the process of making images in liquid pools, puddles, thin films, trickles, drops or any other containment of liquid where fluid dynamic patterns are the focus.

As I practice fluidism today, I experiment in a netherworld between two media - painting and photography. In simple terms, this means I photograph paintings that cannot exist.

I use sunlight to illuminate very small pools or thin films of various real liquid mixtures. I manipulate the liquid's chemical composition, color, thickness and flow rate. Simultaneously, I chase the sun's path and the liquid's constantly-changing form with a camera to frame and capture fleeting, one-time-only designs.

Nature has an incredible bag of visual tricks to perform in liquids. I'm absolutely obsessed with these. No human intention ever could produce the exact complex, organic intricacies that I observe close-up. These are paintings of the universe BY the universe, where I am a scribe.