Before Super Critical Liquid became a series of paintings, it began with a simple thought:
Water is the quiet architect of everything alive.
We forget this, because water is everywhere — in our bodies, our memories, our oceans, our storms — but nothing on Earth exists without it. Carbon and water are the co-conspirators of life. One provides the structure, the other provides the medium. When they meet, things happen: cells form, chemistry wakes up, life begins to sketch itself into being.
That’s why I wanted to understand water when it reaches its most intense state — the moment where it stops behaving like “just water” and becomes something transformative. Scientists call that moment super critical liquid. I think of it differently:
It’s the threshold where matter becomes possibility.
Water: The First Home of Life
Every ocean wave is older than civilization.
Every drop of rain is recycled from ancient seas.
Every living thing on Earth traces its lineage back to water.
Life didn’t begin in soil or air — it began in the deep.
Water held us, protected us, and gave us room to experiment. Even now, humans are still made of it. Nearly two-thirds of the body is water, and most of our internal chemistry occurs in miniature oceans inside our cells.
We may walk on land, but biologically, we never left the shoreline.
Water Is More Valuable Than Gold
Human history proves this again and again:
We have fought over rivers.
We have guarded wells.
We still negotiate over water rights with more intensity than any mineral or metal.
Gold is luxury.
Water is survival.
Civilizations rise where water flows.
Civilizations fall when it disappears.
We can argue about politics, borders, ideologies — but water remains the ultimate truth-teller. It always wins.
Water as My Safe Harbor
People often ask why water appears so frequently in my work.
It’s simple: water is where I feel most myself.
When I swim, my mind clears.
When I stare at the ocean, I feel perspective return.
Water absorbs anxiety, distractions, deadlines, and noise.
It is the one element that holds me the way it once held the earliest forms of life — without condition or expectation.
So when I paint Super Critical Liquid, I’m painting more than a scientific idea. I’m painting the feeling of water when it becomes absolute:
the moment where it stops being background and becomes a force.
For me, water isn’t just symbolic.
It’s home.
It’s history.
It’s refuge.
It’s the element that resets me so I can create again.
Why I Paint This Series
Super Critical Liquid isn’t meant to be literal.
It’s meant to capture the emotional state where pressure, heat, and experience combine — and something new is born.
It’s about transformation.
It’s about the place where boundaries dissolve.
It’s about water becoming more than itself, the same way we sometimes become more than our circumstances.
Water made life.
Water makes us.
And in my studio, water makes art.