Principles of Water

Piece Description:

A spiral is a vortex. It is the singular force that creates life. This is the form of our hearts, which pulse in the motion of a vortex, creating life. Betsy Damon’s discovery of the vortex movement of water, and of our hearts, began when she began awakening early in the morning to take a canoe out on to Squam Lake to observe the way water rose into mists in the form of spirals. The vortex motion throws off pollution. Indeed, the water molecule is always seeking to attain its most pure form, to attain its most powerful state of being. According to Damon, “The motion of water in a vortex manner is what water does. It’s the consciousness of water.”

Piece Description:

All hearts, from the whale and horse to the human and bee, are designed alike. They may be different in size, but they all operate on the principle of the pulse, of the vortex-like contraction. This principle of the vortex, in which the heart pulses, is the same as the principle of movement in water, which when moving in a vortex motion stays pure and clean, serving life in the most meaningful and efficient way.

Piece Description:

This Chinese ink-wash painting once again pictures Betsy Damon’s early life experience of mists rising from the waters of Lake Squam. The emphasis here is upon the way in which waters descend from the sky in spiral, while also rising from the water to the sky in a spiral manner. The artist believes that all waters are connected, and that waters transform through their phases and states in a complete circle. Water falls onto the earth and then goes back up into the sky. However, there is a small amount of water that gets constantly added to the earth’s total water, coming from water from outer space that gets melted and trapped into our atmosphere. The artist points out that when water falls from the sky, waters in lakes or oceans form droplets which reach up to meet falling drops. She is fascinated by the way these two waters will mingle, and at the length of time it takes them to fully merge into one another.