Like a modern form of alchemy, scientists struggle to create and purify an element necessary for human life: water. Diana Leavengood and Paula Allen have found the secret recipe, collected in Recipe for Water, an exhibit of photography, ceramics, drawings and paintings with a common bond of "intuitive interpretations of the unseen energies around water." (Pictured: "Recipe for Water" by Diana Leavengood) On display through Oct. 23, West Tampa Center for the Arts, 1906 N. Armenia Ave., Tampa, $3.
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2009.