Tops Gallery

Introducing Falling Water: New Works by Dan Torop. Join us for the opening event on Saturday, April 8, from 6 to 8 pm. Over the last several years, Dan Torop has visited places in the United States where water is scarce or abundant. At a playground located in upstate New York, there is a waterfall. Observing a flood-ravaged area with a diminished amount of water encourages sustained seasonal observation. This kind of observation allows you to capture telling images. The landscape that the water forms, present and absent, is revealed. There is a powerful flow of water from a cliff onto a rock face, with mist making a rainbow. These are dream places. These images are metaphors for aging, where water is always flowing. These images are metaphors for aging, where water is always flowing. This is a source of wonder, entropy, reason, and wonder. The water often shows the structures of a world that is moving, while also hiding them. The images can reveal the landscape before them, or they can hide it behind the flows in the land. This land is hard, denying, and transforming. The water is so powerful that the objective position is at risk. Anyone who wears the transparent eye cannot see if they are close to their head. Working near swift water presents significant danger. tsunamis from melting ice-caps or high water flows occur. The freezing of a violent motion can hold back trauma and record a moment in the infinite expanse of continuous action. These photographs have helped to push and challenge American landscape photography. The physical entity of the land is known and can be photographed. The need to ask questions is what makes this exhibition important. The land is constantly changing. The act of looking for the distance and looking back at it generates an open space between and ahead. Exploration is over. Our world has never been explored.