approx. " x "
Reclaimed wood, bones, Cape Fear navigational map,
shells, tin, bones, crab carapice, sea fan, coral
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime,
if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons,
the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single
afternoon
without
discomfort. The mind has sunk away into its beginnings among old roots and
the obscure
tricklings and movings that stir inanimate things. Like the charmed fairy circle
into which
a man once stepped, and upon emergence learned that a whole century had passed in
a single night, one can never quite define this secret; but
it has something to do, I am sure,
with common water. Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the
past and
prepares
the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can
assume
forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to
a single shining bone cast up by the sea."
Eisely, Loren, The Immense Journey. New York: Vintage Books, 1959. (pp. 15-17)
