Dima Rebus Creates Collaborative Watercolor Works from Global Water Samples

Dima Rebus, a contemporary artist, creates his pieces using water samples sourced from individuals across the globe, whom he refers to as floaters. These participants either send their samples directly or leave them anonymously in various locations, such as parks, alleyways, abandoned structures, or bustling streets. Most samples come with letters, fostering conversations influenced by location, emotions, memories, and time. The samples vary from lyrical seasonal rain and glacial melt to water that signifies risk, pollution, or hints of ecological and political turmoil. Rebus has curated an extensive collection of waters from diverse sources like rains, rivers, seas, oceans, and glaciers. His technique involves freezing these samples with watercolor pigments, allowing them to melt onto different paper types, followed by the addition of figurative images to the resulting abstract compositions. This approach turns each artwork into a connection between disparate lives, material changes, and the delicate poetics of interaction. Through these collaborative, water-based creations, the artist examines the evolving nature of everyday human experiences.