Mist Rising

Piece Description:

Text: Sophia Kidd

From an early age, Betsy Damon was fascinated by mist, especially the way mist appeared as it hovered over the smooth surface of a body of water. She would wonder how it was that life really began. She wondered what it was that initiated life on earth. At last, through contemplating the appearance of mists over water, she came upon the answer—it is water that gives rise to life.

Piece Description:

Text: Sophia Kidd

In her passion for observing the appearance of mist as it hovered over the surface of calm water, the artist, who was living during the summertime with her parents at Squam Lake (New Hampshire, USA), would get up very early in the morning to see the sun come up. It was during this hour of the day that water would rise from the lake in the form of very subtle, and yet evident, spirals. This began Betsy Damon’s lifelong devotion to study of vortex movement in water.