'The water I paint with becomes tainted, and tinted, as my colors merge into one another. The water is never pure, never clear, never free from form. Colors that aren't meant to mix, end up bleeding and submerging; escaping into another colors pigment. Amphibiliving is a social issue artwork based around global warming and its future implications to water in particular, our casual nature and our marks we leave on this world conflict and have consequences, one casual approach of vast water creating art for abstract effect, demonstrates one way in which as people we leave our mark in water everyday. For an artist, every time we rinse our brushes'.

 Amphibiliving is a project that explores the future use and living with water and as the ice caps melt it is believed that certain parts of the world will become flooded, or unhabitatable. In these works i explore humans casual relationship with water, and how freely we use vast amounts of water on a regular basis and combine it with my passion of art in the form of abstract painting. This idea was presented in the project using a bath tub and sink both used in everyday life with various papers and arcylic paint. I also did video recordings of the sink experiment, as i found that the process of creating the artworks with a vast amount of water expressed clearly what the project is about. The video recordings show the casual approach we have to water along with the painting process, how the colors are bleeding and merging into one another. The paintings are the end result of the process, and the photographs are my artistic pollution upon the world we live in, as my painters mark is left in the bath and sink.

This work relates to my overall vision as it deals with a social issue that is also political, that affects, and is in everyone's mind of what is true and what isn't.How i expect the audience to relate to this, is that i hope they see my casual use of water, and how it is shocking that an artist would use such a quantity of water to create a certain effect on paper. In some people's mind can be achieved with a simple jar of water. This relates to my past work through it use of bold color but has lost that figurative form. This artwork fits in with abstract expressionism as i am painting what i feel inside and the process overall being the artwork just what i have painted.

The inspiration for this project came from Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly and Jackson Pollock, all three very abstract and utilize expression of color to its fullest. The techniques or process used is first of all fill the bath tub or sink with water and then submerge the paper within the water and repeating the same on the other side to stop any curves on the paper and apply paint  in a random spontanoeus manner evoking feeling from the inside as i try and control what i am creating but that water has control as the paper is completely saturated the marks of anger become blurred softer like the sea caressing the paper taking back what belongs to nature like colors on the paper become like whirlpools or like hippy love patterns. This art works origin was sparkled off by my fascination with color and how i like to manipulate and use different effects.