Water is the Source of Life
Water Fountains harmonize water and design in ways that fulfill the dual promises of both form and function. In early times, public water fountains served as places to meet while collecting water for daily functions, such as washing or bathing, and also for collecting water for the day's tasks. Later, they became important landscaping elements designed to impress and refresh. Outdoor Fountains have always embodied symbolic, artistic, and social ideas as they brighten spaces and inspire people. Whether from cast stone, metal, or fiberglass, the success of a fountain design is ultimately by it's appearance as it dances with the dual forces of light and water.
Understanding the versatile properties of water, and how best to use it in fountains requires sustained observation of nature, a knowledge of engineering principals, and technical hydraulic mastery. Only then can a fountain designer begin to apply the principals of design the fully express the intentions of the artist. Many of the greatest fountains of history are testament to ingenious ability of fountain designers to change a dry, drab, solid monument in a vibrant, wet dance, a changeable and living work of art. The expert integration of rising and falling water, design skill, and hydraulic technology creates fountains that are amenities for people's practical and pleasure use.
Water permeates the whole of the natural world and every aspect of our existence. Two Thirds of the world's surface is covered in water, but only a tiny fraction is available to humans as fresh water. The cycle of water influences, and creates, our weather. And we all know that water is the a main component of the human body. Without it, we die. We have an instinctual craving for seeing, hearing, and touching water, both for it's life-givng properties and it's sensual pleasure and spiritual solace. Music, myth, legends, poetry, symbolism, and poetry combine with art to extoll water's magical powers in life and spirit. Civilization has always depended on water for purposes base and complex. It has effected history, politics, and economics, and indeed the course of history. Civilizations first developed around running and still bodies of water, using water as the source of life, agriculture, trade, and transportation.