"My work examines how shared patterning, vast fragility, intermediate states, and the effects of time come together to provide both comfort and a glance at hopelessness, when faced with the intricacies of nature and our embodiment.
In my body of work focused on rendering water surfaces, I am interested in concepts of intermediate spaces as they relate to the experience of embodiment, wholeness in the face of entropy, and the relentlessness of time. These ideas are considered through scale and a focus on examining surfaces through a highly detailed approach, resulting in a kind of realism that reaches toward a sublime abstraction. In depicting these surfaces, derived from such brief yet intricate moments in time, I aim to emphasize the urgency of both reverence and the futile urge to adhere to passing moments. These representations of water in a state of halted momentum are also about an ache for stillness, or the desire to find a place outside of time and its effects. They are in part motivated by a reach for an infinitely unchanging home, that possibly existed before the experience of embodiment. I imagine that the Bardo-type state between shifts in trajectory is one that mirrors this place of hovering peace that one constantly reaches for while caught in the unstoppable narrative of ego and time. I try to give form to this sense of longing through devoting detailed visual articulation to a fleeting manifestation." --LeeAnna Repass
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