Fluid substances are photographed to look like solid crystalline structures in some of Wilbur Heynes’ digital prints on aluminium.  The cosmic body of water, the lapping ocean, is snapped at coasts ranging from Wales to Ontario.  Although the prime location is the quartz sea green frothy shot of Niagara, the tranquil Jumeira beach see-through section is presented as the uber holiday postcard. ‘Supergranulation’, taken at Niagara Falls, has the appearance of sugar crystals frosting each peak.  Heynes makes the macro proportions of marine geography appear like micro details for example in ‘Plasma I’ the water at Whitesands beach, Pembrokeshire seems like folds of tissue and ‘Faculae’ has the loose geometry of cell structure.  Two different textures naturally occur in the shore shot of ‘Heliosphere’ giving a well-structured typically contemporary composition to the photograph.

 

Ten gleaming electroplated silvery-toned sculptures are included.  Sleek horses and elegantly-toned minimalist men are featured.  There is a fluid feel to the sculptures, as slippery as liquid mercury and offering a velocity to the subjects.  Watery movement is pin-pointed in ‘Isohel’ where the reflection of moving water is captured on the sand bed beneath.  The perfect shot of aqua is portrayed in ‘Filaments I’.  Taken in Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario, the cornflower and petrol blue tones are electric, interspersed with sparkles of gold and threads of white.  Heynes uses water as the perfect prism and captures colours that this viewer last saw as a child.