ICE
ICE arrests the process at its coldest moment. Barer freezes the saturated sculptures, trapping water as it turns to crystal, so the page is suspended between states — neither flowing nor dry, but held.
Where her earlier work let water move freely, ICE stops it. Freezing turns the fluid stage of the process into something architectural — sharp, glassy, momentary. The works carry a chill that is also a kind of preservation: the page kept, for an instant, from ever drying into its final form.