Water from the Rock

In the religious imagination, water quenches both physical and spiritual thirst. In the most unexpected places wells and rocks become the bearers of story. Focusing on the Exodus narrative of Moses’ striking the rock which opens an aquifer, artists considered the power of water as sustenance, healing, and renewal and how seemingly inanimate entities such as water and rocks might also be alive and help us rethink our relationship to the earth.

Image by Melissa Nees Hauger