In The Space in Which We Travel Calida Rawles depicts two adolescent girls in white dresses who are submerged underwater, grasping each other’s hands; their bodies create a double helix, suggesting their genealogical linkage. Rawles reflects that water can be turbulent and terrifying but also enveloping and elevating: it is “duplicitous…a very dangerous element,” she says. “In order to survive in water, you have to relax. If you struggle, you sink. You take the waves as they come. I think of that as just a state of being.”
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Calida Rawles
United States, b. 1976
The Space in Which We Travel, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by Allison and Larry Berg and an anonymous donor
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The Space in Which We Travel, 2019
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