Christian Awe’s water paintings awaken the broadest range of associations regarding water - water on the one hand as source of life and symbol of purity, while on the other also representing a hurdle and untamable force of nature, as for the many thousands who have fled their homes to risk their lives on their journey to freedom traversing the Mediterranean. Awe’s water paintings appear three dimensionally as if it is a real water-drop, easily to be mistaken as photography or print. His layered works looking like a wild spark of energy, in reality are a created gesture, emerged from a calculated long process of removal.