Artist Statement by Melanie Ariens
Take a moment and reflect on our tenuous relationship with water. All life depends on it, yet we often turn our backs to it; polluting it, trying to control it, destroying natural habitats and supporting businesses that want to commodify this shared necessity. In doing this we support a disconnect from nature and the very water that sustains us all. One way to heal the world is to heal the waters. ..
...Melanie serves as Artist-in-Residence for the Milwaukee Water Commons, which uses art as an engagement tool to develop water leadership deep in the city...
see more at https://awealthofnature.org/healing-the-waters-the-art-of-melanie-ariens/