Water meets art meets water
Bill Kelly thinks about water a lot.
As an artist, he's looked at how people interact with the wilder world, and he's recently focused on water as "one of the most common but easily overlooked interactions we have with nature everyday, and one reason why it presents an ideal lens through which to explore the larger story of society's reliance upon the natural world."
He's recently finished a series of "jar art" - filled with water, plants and images - to "remind how we are intertwined both locally and globally with the finite amount of water that exists on this planet."
A public reception is being held Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center.
The exhibit will remain open through Nov. 22.
The exhibit is part of the Philadelphia Water Department's "Green Cities, Clean Waters" program.
Kelly studied photography at the Art Institute of Philadelphia and has a master's degree in fine arts from Goddard College in Vermont.
He reports in a prepared statement that after this, "I can never again nonchalantly drive over a local river, turn on my tap, or dump something down the drain without thinking of the many ways I may be impacting - and am in turn affected by - the local water cycle."
