Río Revuelto, roughly translated as “troubled river,” is a series of paintings that seeks to understand the varied and complex movements of water, from turbulence and laminar flow to vortices, whirlpools, currents, splashes, waterfalls, eddies, waves, and tides.
Although chaotic in appearance, turbulent water can generate forms of spontaneous order. Its particles respond sensitively to neighboring molecules and to their environment, producing coordinated movement.
A similar organization emerges when a crowd moves through a narrow passage: without explicit agreement, bodies adjust to one another and move almost automatically. Such forms of spontaneous order also appear in climatic events, ecological systems, and technology