Drink Deep (1991)

Drink Deep is a lyrical vision of friendship hidden secrets and desires Cohen uses several types of film image to add texture to the layered composition Beautiful shades of grey silver black and blue echo the water reminiscent of early photography and silverprints Cohen says The piece was constructed primarily from footage Id shot of skinnydippers at swimming holes in Georgia and rural Pennsylvania Its about water and memory and stories just submerged It is also in part a response to thinking about censorship I would say that Drink Deep is both unabashedly and deceptively romantic Surface flow and undertow What looks like paradise is always paradise lost