At an artist residency in Bali in the Winter of 2019 culminating at an exhibition at the Bali Purnati Center For The Arts,  I made a transcultural art piece, interacting with Balinese people learning about their lives.   My theme was Object as Biography, which I had been doing through writing and painting in previous work.  However, this time I added verbal story- telling and Balinese offering bowls filled with water forming a line from a pool to a pavilion where people came to view the images and hear the stories. I expanded the boundaries of my creative process to include installation, realizing the symbolic and very real importance of water in my life and art.  
     

I asked two locals, I came to know, to lend me a possession that had meaning for them.  I sat with each one in the moonlight and transcribed their stories about the significance of their object and anecdotes about their lives.  They both brought things given to them by a lover expressing devotion.  Swimming in circles in the residency’s small pool, I meditated about how I would portray and connect these images with words.  At a water temple, always aware of water being the antidote to fire and the extreme heat, I performed a purifying ritual focusing on Love.