The sheet that was wetted twice
One work has an area where the paper buckled — and the artist left it that way.
Watercolour does not forgive a return: a dried layer cannot be repainted without a trace. In this work the artist wetted the sheet a second time and the paper buckled.
The distortion shows in raking light — a wave runs through the lower third. Ternova says she first set the sheet aside, came back a year later, and decided the wave holds the composition better than the original plan.
