i guess i never properly responded to irland's article. i think i read it ahead of time and put it lumped with an earlier response. so here goes: "there is a sacredness in all of water's shape-shifting selves", this resonates with me strongly. having grown up on a peninsula, i took water in any form for granted. when i moved here, i was so in awe over the mountains and sunsets that it took a couple of years for me to long for the ocean again. now, i ache for it. i think our biggest global concern is water. i love the approach that she takes with the water, in a very intimate, thought provoking way. looking at water microscopically is what really fascinated me. drawing that out in a macroscopic way is intriguing. for our presentation i tried to get a water sample from the science department but never heard back. i really wanted to see what critters were in that water. although i agree that the writing was broken up and didn't quite flow that well, it reminded me of the very nature of the water cycle. thich nhat hanh uses the metaphor of a cloud, that you can see the cloud in everything. he illustrates that the cloud rains water, the water feeds the grass, the cows eat the grass, the cows produce milk, milk creates ice cream, your ice cream is a cloud! he illustrates the water cycle. i think we lose sight of that aspect of water, it's form. certainly out here in the desert, you would think our relationship with water would return to a spiritual connection, as all the other beings have before us has done. if that's a far stretch, one would at least assume we would gain a more proactive ecological perspective on the limited amounts of water we do have and the quality of water. it's sad really. but, that's what we artists/ecologists are for after all, right?
lovely image, thank you!
ReplyDeletei guess i never properly responded to irland's article. i think i read it ahead of time and put it lumped with an earlier response. so here goes:
ReplyDelete"there is a sacredness in all of water's shape-shifting selves", this resonates with me strongly. having grown up on a peninsula, i took water in any form for granted. when i moved here, i was so in awe over the mountains and sunsets that it took a couple of years for me to long for the ocean again. now, i ache for it. i think our biggest global concern is water.
i love the approach that she takes with the water, in a very intimate, thought provoking way.
looking at water microscopically is what really fascinated me. drawing that out in a macroscopic way is intriguing. for our presentation i tried to get a water sample from the science department but never heard back. i really wanted to see what critters were in that water.
although i agree that the writing was broken up and didn't quite flow that well, it reminded me of the very nature of the water cycle. thich nhat hanh uses the metaphor of a cloud, that you can see the cloud in everything. he illustrates that the cloud rains water, the water feeds the grass, the cows eat the grass, the cows produce milk, milk creates ice cream, your ice cream is a cloud! he illustrates the water cycle. i think we lose sight of that aspect of water, it's form.
certainly out here in the desert, you would think our relationship with water would return to a spiritual connection, as all the other beings have before us has done. if that's a far stretch, one would at least assume we would gain a more proactive ecological perspective on the limited amounts of water we do have and the quality of water. it's sad really.
but, that's what we artists/ecologists are for after all, right?
gorgeous shot!
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