Wet Water Lyrics

The numbered titles below are individual images in a 120-foot-long public mural by the artist Anne Deleporte in Gowanus, Brooklyn--you can see the process of creation in the interspersed photographs. Click on the annotations to reveal the pictures themselves.


01. Lane Pain
02. Don't Even Think
03. Lane Pain 2
04. Green Giant
05. Hole in a Sole
06. Six Sided Fuzzy Dice
07. Editorial Blue
08. Rebus
09. Full Buck Moon
10. Twin Planet

11. Swim Swam Swum
12. Gibbous Moon
13. Sorry We're Open
14. Asteroid
15. Odalisk
16. This Way Please
17. Red Square
18. Chameleon
19. Blue in Jar
20. No Magnifying

21. Diego
22. Mariposas
23. Triple Pounder
24. Wannabe Miro
25. Fiberglass Bone
26. Décollage
27. Researching
28. Pugilist '08
29. Mariposita
30. Sea Horse Shoe

31. Tear in my Beer
32. Book Section
33. Lamas Turning Left
34. Chile 1997 km
35. Bullet Train
36. Spaghetti or Tacos
37. Mocking Bird
38. Green Trompe l'Oeil
39. Greenless de Kooning
40. Impressionista

41. Carpaccio and His Teeth
42. Style Section
43. Black Planet
44. Well Known Planet
45. Attitude Shadow
46. Famous Big Foot
47. Sharpest Knife in the Drawer
48. Hiccupy Line
49. Iris
50. Found Diary

51. Over 400 Years Old
52. Boxing King & Jack
53. Jazzy Matisse
54. Sky Blue Turtle
55. Lazy Naked Chick by Giorgione
56. Editorial Yellow
57. Tap Wet Water
58. Banking Around
59. Untitled Planets
60. Messy Line
61. Up and Down
62. Full Bag of Blue
63. Slingshot & Bean Shooter
64. Liquid Image
65. Interieur Bleu by Matisse
66. Bali Dancer
67. Belly Dancer
68. Chichon Weed
69. Angle of Inclination
70. Slates or Red Tiles
71. Corazon de Melon
72. Pecten Maximus
73. Between the Index and the Thumb
74. Egyptian Joke
75. Tête a Tête
76. Heavy Bubbles
77. Bubbly Cell
78. Ultimate Flip-flop
79. Bicolor Infinity
80. New Year's Eve Drop
81. Price & Banking
82. Honky Tonk Cubism
83. Contemporary Traffic Patrol
84. Kubism
85. Shatterism
86. 1660 lbs
87. Ghost Image Problem
88. Full Sturgeon Moon
89. Our Lost Left Gloves
90. Lost Dragon
91. Polka
92. Frying Noodles
93. Sticky Noodles
94. Spiral Flip-flop
95. Stories of Miracles
96. A-Frame
97. Crack is Wack
98. Solid Inclination
99. Elevation
100. Bootleg Milk Crown
101. Romus & Remulus
102. Romus & Remulus + One
103. Tour de France
104. Higher Elevation
105. Air Head

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Art Genius Contest:

Name That Image

The artist Anne Deleporte has offered some possible titles for the individual images in her 120-foot-long public mural in Gowanus, Brooklyn–see the images within her verified annotations on this page. Some of her image names are funny, some serious, some are simple, some deep, and some puzzling.

Think you can come up with better titles? Offer them as “comments” in the annotations on this page and win a prize!

First Prize:

A one-of-a-kind painting by Anne Deleporte!

Second Prize:

An Anne Deleporte art book signed by the artist!

And if you are in the New York City area, come to the opening reception for Anne’s “Wet Water” on Saturday, September 14th at 7 PM at the Showroom / Gowanus. Here’s more information from their website:

SHOW ROOM invites you to the opening of Anne Deleporte’s mural project, Wet Water. Spanning 120 feet, Deleporte’s sky-blue mural faces the gallery’s new exhibition space on Union St., Brooklyn, near the Gowanus Canal.

As with her other signature murals, Deleporte covers the wall with newspapers then paints over it, editing and concealing most of the information except selected images that result in a gigantic rebus.

Writing on Deleporte’s photo-frescos, Sara Reisman says:

Part collage, part painting, Deleporte’s work is created through a chance process of collecting newspapers late in the day, or long after the news is current…. As a viewer, you might be immediately drawn to certain details: a color wheel, Picasso’s portrait of Therese, the Mississippi River,…a crumbling loaf of bread.

What do sections of corn on the cob, cheese fondue, a red robin, and a bull have to do with art?…In viewing, or rather reading, these…an appreciation emerges for the artistry of print media: photography, drawing, typeface, and paintings captured within Deleporte’s painting, rich with shadow, suggest a [depth] that makes the news all the more surreal.”

But of course the public mural is on permanent exhibit at Union Street near the Gowanus canal.

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