Is Water Personal?
Is water personal? For me, the answer was an emphatic yes. But then I stopped to consider why. I grew up with water, as most children do. Drinking it, playing in it, cleansing my body with it, I was inebriated with it. But I don’t recall it. My firmest memories are of other times of water; of cooking, camping, canoeing, fishing, wind, waves, birds, laughter. I remember sitting on a stone, feeling terrified of my future for the very first time, staring at the waves lapping gently against the rocks and the shore, wondering at the steadfastness of their rhythm.
Water is related to memory. Maybe it’s just one factor in an entire set, simply part of a scene. Or maybe it calls on our heartbeats to beat in
time to the regularity of these waves and, as a result, we become connected by our very life force to the water [more than we, over 50% filled, already are].
Water changes us. Sound, sight, smell, water is associated historically/scientifically/physically/mentally/personally/ with peace and healing, personal things.
Water has danced amongst the cacophony of my personal life adventure.
But I think I’m beginning to realize that the ways in which I found it to be personal also connect me to the wider community [Water is universal].
Deveny Miles
January 2015
Intern for Dry Run Studio “Bridge” project
