water knows| tide tells

Water, essential for life and living, is eternally recycled.

Memory shapes our identities and relationships.

Water has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is a blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single ripple. The water remembers everything, every touch, every tear, every moment.

A developing series, these works are building on the information that the river has shared with me over the past seven years. I am constantly drawn to it, it has me reaching for new ways of knowing. I have begun to read poetry  and history linked to this place and others, where water is woven into the fabric of prose. I have a thirst to discover how this river has formed, how it has been shaped, how it feels, and makes us feel. How we have colonised the river. How its memories are impacting on us even now.

This is a deep primal knowledge base that spans infinite time, waiting patiently, deep or in plain sight, to be revealed and shared. As time moves inexorably, the tides  tell us a patchwork of fragments  of the story of this river. Teasing us, confronting us, and collaborating with us to understand what this river gives us spiritually, how it warns us of excess, and guides reconciliation between us.

Alternative, sustainable and camera less photographic practices are forming the nucleus of this body of work, as I continue to move away from the Western Landscape traditions. I am leaning towards creating sculptural elements. I want to explore how the camera can be used to record rituals, where the camera becomes the witness to the acts of l\knowing and telling.

I am exploring the idea of rituals. Are my processes becoming rituals? What do these rituals add to my creative practice? How might these rituals reveal the water’s knowledge?