“Water also represents tears. Tears don’t always come from sadness. They may come from joy. Strain. They could be immediate and have nothing at all to do with anything except they had to pop out of your eyes at that time—your brain said ‘you can relieve yourself now.’ I believe they’re this wellspring. We’re connected to the tides and everything else.” Water appears as a sacred and essential substance, as well as a shapeshifter. In Cobalt Rain, cascading beads evoke sheets of precipitation.The deep blue figure seems to contemplate and personify these liquid states of change. Across many world religions, blue signifies divinity, prayer, plenitude, and the unknowable depths of the universe.