Erin Bird

Erin Bird

Water takes centuries to transform what it touches. My art honors that same patient shift—where the remnants of my past dissolve and give rise to something new and unexpected. I harness water’s relentless flow to explore transformation, grief, and renewal. Rooted in my heritage, I work through the tension between what is hidden and what is revealed—confronting my deepest vulnerabilities.

Showing a figurative work beside an abstract one isn’t a before-and-after; rather, I’m placing the vulnerable and the liberated side by side, allowing viewers to sense the interplay between.

For me, water is both a material and a metaphor—dissolving the past while offering the hope of reconciliation. By embracing its unpredictable movements, my work mirrors the dialogue between rational thought and the unconscious. Each piece becomes a kind of baptism, immersing personal and intergenerational narratives into a cycle of mourning and rebirth.

I developed an experimental technique I call “waterprinting,” submerging photographic prints so water can erode and reshape the images. Through this fluid process, once-representational photographs merge with painterly abstraction, echoing how memory slips and reforms over time.

Even the most stubborn substrate eventually yields to water’s slow, inexorable flow—offering a contemplative space where transformation and renewal become possible.

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Erin Bird, artist

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