Capital B Atlanta 's Alyssa Johnson interviews painter Calida Rawles about her show at Spelman College, her alma mater: The pieces in the exhibit center around water. For the Black diaspora there is a violent history with water, and so how do we hold the restorative nature of it, but also the trauma?  I learned to swim at a later age and it was really important to me to have that skill. I thought I could use my art as a way to show [water] to our community. … A lot of people think of swimming and water and surfing and all of that as somewhat outside of our community, but it’s been ours and I feel like I’m bringing it back to us. It is both healing and destructive. No matter what I paint, whatever subject, that undercurrent is always there of talking about the balance of things. Some of the hardest times in my life came with a lot of joy at the same time. Water is a great metaphor of how life is.…