Water: It's Alive
objects embodied - - portals, memory, meaning
Hello Dear Reader,
What is it about the flow of water, around us and within us, that makes us feel alive?
And how might objects, in relationship with water, offer portals to memory and meaning?
Interested in exploring these questions?
Please join me for an eight-week Practice Group through the Kinship Photography Collective. We begin on Monday October 6.
While I hang out with my wedding dress, which I have been playing with for the past six months, you may be called by something as large as a house or as small as an heirloom button. No matter the thing, we will play together, always open to the unexplored and unexpected.
What happens, for example, when we take objects we love for a walk or a swim?
If you’re interested in having fun while we make meaning out of our stuff, sign up now - - we’re almost full!
Along the way, we’ll consider how photography can help us make sense of the unexpected life-forces contained within seemingly inanimate things, whether your mother-in-law’s shell collection, your grandmother’s china pug or your own beloved childhood stuffie.
We will practice listening to the spirits of objects and our relationships to those spirits. Are they inviting us in or asking us to move on?
Because what really interests me is the idea of flow. Things, ideas, pets, people and places come in and out of our lives. Some stick around longer than others, but there is always some kind of movement, even if it is within our minds as our thoughts play games with us.
As I write, my hands are still cold from a quick dunk in the Ottauquechee River this morning. While low, due to our drought, there was one spot just deep enough for a plunge. It took my breath away. Cold water can do that to a person. And when I emerged - - wow - - every pore awake.
Water will do that. Here’s Calvin a year ago, emerging after his last swim. He couldn’t contain himself, achy bones and all. He died from a stroke a few weeks later.
Tide comes in and goes out. Water ripples or rushes in a river. But when I create an image, is it possible to replicate that energy? Do I even need or want to?
Juicy questions abound. And now worries if you can’t make the Practice Group - - I’ll share what emerges right here.
As always, thank you for sharing your time and this space with me.
With cheers and gratitude for you being you,
Lyn
What do you think about this idea of the flow of stuff in our lives?
And just as our food waste shares itself with the earth, please consider sharing the energy embodied in this post with someone who might be interested.
As always, I'm inspired by your images and your words, Lyn! I am so moved by the beauty and power of water, and you are drawing me to quiet reflection. Thank you!
Lyn, wonderful, inspired, inspiring, and uplifting comments and images, thank you!! Can't wait to see you when you're back in the Upper Valley!! Keep connecting these images to life and each other and to the rest of your wonderful circle... XO