Water, Sacred Water with work by artist Janet Fredericks and poet Guy Jean OPENS Saturday June 27 and runs thru Sunday August 23, 2020. This show highlights their exploration on the consciousness of water based on the discoveries of Masaru Emoto. The artists are not anthropomorphizing water, but rather interpreting waters own nature thru pattern and sound. The water studies occurred in two streams of water: the New Haven, a mountainous river torrent, and the ruisseau de la Brasserie, an urban stream in Gatineau, Québec.

Guy Jean’s contemplative and written works involve the following: the physical phenomenon of the water course; the sounds of the water’s language in terms of discovery, naming, and interpreting; the relationship between the water course and its banks from history to pollution; and the river beneath the river, in other words the dream time or unconscious flow.

And Janet Frederick’s interpretive work takes on the daily life of the river and its edges from the people and their activities to the flora and fauna. The vocabulary of the river became evident to her from the first moment she slipped a piece of Aquarelle paper into the New Haven waters and discovered the moving shadows. Janet’s drawings are an excursion into the riverscape in which the colours, forms, and textures offer to take you there:

I immediately recognized a visual language being formed by the lines that were crossing the page. I saw a universal language distinct to the river itself and became witness to the shapes—it was in this way, I was able to register their intimate and sacred meaning.

This four-year collaboration is collected into a book entitled “Et l’eau répondit…” 2006.

For a video interview with Guy Jean (in French) please see : https://www.facebook.com/associationdesauteursetauteuresdeloutaouais/videos/890696517750300/UzpfSTEwMDAwOTA3NDA1MDYzNToxODI4NTEzNzM3NDYxMDc3/?id=100009074050635