IIW 2023 Welded Art Book

SDG 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

This SDG aims to help to expand water and sanitation support to developing countries, and to support local engagement in water and sanitation management. This will include safe and affordable drinking water, end open defecation and provide access to sanitation and hygiene, improve water quality, wastewater treatment and safe reuse, increase water use efficiency and ensure freshwater supplies, implement Industrial Waste Management Evaluation, protect and restore water related ecosystems. nExhibit “Born of the Rain”n Life without water could simply not exist. “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans, in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence”. Kahlil Gibran. A watershed is a land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean.

A Watershed is Nature’s force at work rather than a concrete human idea, and there is a certain sense of life unfolding as it should. But in reality it is about a never ending battle; our little human race meets big powerful Nature head on, and we must both win, for all life depends on water. Born of the Rain is a low-relief wall sculpture, hand built of mild steel and stainless steel sheet, and mild steel rod. It is hammered, welded and torch coloured. A description of the exhibit depicting a watershed channelling the rainwater is: “Welcoming hands, imploring hands, helping hands, reaching up to the rain as glistening streams flow between those fingers. The water courses down her arms and undulates over her body. Rivulets, brooks, creeks, streams and rivers, ponds, lakes and oceans. A body, of water”. nDimensions of exhibitn Lifesize

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Welded Art PHOTOGRAPHIC Exhibition – IIW 2023 Digital Collection