scratched into water, 2024

Zora Mann, scratched into water, 2024, Watercolour, 179 × 92 cm

In Zora Mann’s large watercolor painting, two blue eyes emerge from a swirling universe of shapes and forms. Off to the side: hands stretch and press through irregular patterns of lines and waves. Scattered across the scene are isolated figures and houses, recurring like fragmented memories in the shifting visual landscape. These elements weave together, merging into a delirium of abstract forms and wavering lines, evoking Mann’s signature maze-like, kaleidoscopic style. In such paintings, the artist invites us to lose ourselves, wandering through her vivid world of color and form, and resurfacing with a renewed sense of wonder.