Cliff Briggie
Infatuated with the idea of transient art, Briggie works mainly with liquids, ice and unstable media that are constantly transforming under the macro lens of his camera. He uses ice and water as a medium in which to diffuse and paint and capture the sense of fleeting moments, the encounter of these materials at a precise moment. The way the water, ice and colour combine and fuse and merge is entirely random and unpredictable and consequently creates unexpected amorphous shapes. Abstract and beautiful, the colourful crystallized ice often appears other-worldly, the fluidity of the composition heightening the senses. Some of them look like tendrils or dense clouds of smoke. There's something really hypnotic within his colour palette and the gentle rhythm which emerges from the combination of fluids. In other images where colour is more prominent it makes me wonder about hallucinogens and their effects and profound distortions of reality.
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