Rain by Cynthia Nawalinski -SOLD OUT!

Rain is a variable, open edition series of pseudo-scientific journals capturing rain patterns. Each Rain book documents a month of days with dates and times in a linear progression. Each print is labeled on the preceding page listing the date and location the rain print was made. Cynthia tells us: As an artist, I look for patterns in my surroundings, and I enjoy searching for ways to make random patterns that aren’t controlled by the artist’s hand. One day, while I was looking out my studio window, I wondered how to make art from the essential, basic experience of living in Oregon. Then I noticed the rain. I set out to capture the pattern of the rain as it falls on the earth and, through many experiments, I discovered a way to make prints of the rain. Each two-page spread is a visual record of ten seconds of rain, at a specific time, on a specific day. This information is recorded in each book. A standard exposure time enables the reader to compare, at a glance, a light mist on one page to a downpour on another page. When turning the pages of the rain books, the rustling pages sound like rain. This process translates the rain from one form to another, from wet to dry, from an ephemeral event to an archival record. Each print contains a record of the weather in an abstract pattern. Rain falls all over the world. Where is it raining now?