Untitled (from the series Still Water (The River Thames, for Example)) 1999

This is an image of the Thames by Roni Horn, one of many, making up a series. I’m just imagining her, out on the river, snapping shot after shot of the water. The surface of the water is almost like a painting itself, full of quiet movement. A painting is a surface, sure, but it's also a record of movement, like the surface of a river. Roni Horn has made the surface of the river into a kind of painting. The color is muted, grayish-blue, so the light seems to be shifting all the time. It reminds me of those late Turner paintings, where the color seems to dissolve into light and atmosphere. Painters and photographers, we’re all looking at the same world, trying to find new ways to capture it, to make sense of it, to share what we see. It’s like we're all in a conversation, across time and space.