wetness everywhere - wetness in varying degrees
wetness everywhere before land, as water - somewhere
hold wetness
rivers refuse wetness’ containment
sea to source in atmosphere
Colonisers = land centric, land centric-isim relegates wetness to a shadow _ a world that refuses to go away
haunting lies precisely in it’s refusal to stop
Oceanus - the oldest primordial generator god envelopes the earth in wetness,
Oceanus the place where the waters pool
the great river, encircling cosmos
the protean oceanic kingdom
Poseidon - god of the sea, with white horses and waves, strident and trident bringing vast dreams and visions to
bear - bore down, summon surges.
feel your entanglement with everything,
include the ugly, the broken and the messed up
relate beyond desires for coherence, purity and perfection.
in the womb each and everyone of us had fins, gills, webbed edges. the concentration of salt in seawater and blood are identical the proportions of sodium, potassium, chloride in our tissues is kin to oceans
we sweat and cry seawater
whoever we are - deer, human, eagle, mouse our life begins in a procreative ocean we are all “bodies of water” (Neimanis p.87 2012), constitutionally, genealogically, geographically
deep flowing - deep swirling = we are territories
practices over plans
work it, touch - be touched
lingering listen - to listen with linger
from the sense of body - feel the rest of the world
holding of wetness is not surface connection
“take notice of all the skins and places we inhabit,
the bones and lands that bear our weight” (Andreotti 2020)
porosity as power, porosity is power
haunting lies precisely in it’s refusal to stop