Body of work: water diaries
Variation: water diary 02
Date: 5 June 2004
Location: Kingston upon Hull, UK
Institute: exStream residency
City: Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, UK
June 05 – July 02 2004
web blog 28 photographs, 28 texts, daily up-load
During the exStream residency at ‘time based arts’, 28 photographs and notes from this period
were collected at the confluence of the River Hull and the River Humber in Kingston upon Hull, UK,
and were up-loaded daily onto the website.
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'Ye Old White Hart': a large brown plant on my green shoulder little paradiselittle happiness as if I already knew youI greet
I am pleasantly smallpleasantly here with you just marking the surfacefrom underneath the evening sun comes and goeshow different you are in different light did you just talk to me?are you salty or sweet? I feel your sand between my…
#language #poetics #variation #water
modulating mudmapping earthconstantly sucking inspitting outdailynightly you and everything around you seem to disappearin soft wet mud just leaving swirls and marking shadowspointing down
full in the morning empty in the afternoonyour presence gives great confidence today relentless bleak turbid booming rippled vast without voicesubduing tarnishing churning updistending loud a muggy day warm and gray brown forgotten grim just thunder from afar reminding of…
early flowdancing light your mouth openyour banks gone
umber [terra d'ombra earth of shadow] large shadows of moving clouds mask youbetween gray and brown: dark browndarker then ocherdarker then siennamoderate browndark yellowish brownolive-brownreddish brownginger-browndrabby-browndusky brownolive-graydull graydark grayno bluescarcely green a permanent pigment in raw statedarkening any view insiderough…
nothing bounces backnothing bounces backnothing bounces back these daysstreaming inwards in the late morningsstreaming outwards in the early eveningstaking steps forth and backlike nothing else here does you are an estuary you are a riverflowing in both directions every dayallowing…
'hi' I shall visit you at dawnand shall acknowledge and remember your color 'hoooo'evening comes
noon light outside cold insidea few cuts of sun break through the cloudsonce they reach you they are too week to touchto enterthey keep shifting for themselvesthey can't make it down to youyou swallow them at once everything seems breakable…
cloud shadow on youthings become what they are:drabness drab heat hot cold cool poverty poor I think of clothhow they must darken in youhow stiff they must becomeit didn't rain really since I am hereonly at night rain and wind…
nothing importantto put down on paper nothingimportant to put down on paper
I see you bringing mud againnot for youyou open up elsewherebut for who?I would help you if the skies were not in the way I am not separate from youwhen we move there is no place where we stop morning…
the chameleon man on-sitethe tall man on strollthe old man on bagsyou under way so thickI am invisible in your turbidity
I am a child who sees a kitten that jumps into my eyes
Silver Streetdown a little furtherhere you aresilverdotted by rain caressing you back playing with your skinmaking you turn your face away as you smile I look up to the skyrain drops falling onto my faceyou are paler then I thoughtpaler…
it is raining more often latelylight short showerscoming and goingstarting then stopping un-noticednot dancingnot playfulonly small rings of lightconcentric circlesreverberating hushedmutedgrowingpersistentpowerfulbut no sound never so far
I grow to like you silentreservednever servilenever curious at least that's how it seems next morning there might be no sign of rain againonly wet claystill muddyleft all over little shadow pools under the bridge glint in the silver airbrown…
you called 'Hull'and you called 'Humber'names mattereven if you do appear differentlyevery time you are warmer nowolive-greenthe lost warehouses along the shorealmost looking into you reflecting?but even reflectingyou never loose yourself you are my mirror todayI feel great gratitude to…
rain is minglingshifting perspectivessnatched between dropsyanked of youthrown into youI feel foreignwithout preparationwithout defensewithout lobby door or entrancepropelled I change from loud to quiet the rain holds on to youa shower of silvery grayfor the rest everything is slipperyno crying…
I stare into youas if I could glance the starsas if I could exchange time with the moonwhile I actually see very littlenothing of youjust the shore where you break hollowingfolding the earth againtirelessuntiringsedulousstrenuous stridingdown so far down I was…
I know you are listening to melistening for somethingI know you are writing to mehere within your swingingI know you are reading mein a language which is not oursguessing at some wordspuzzling over otherswhile the next wave carries you forwardbeyond…
wordsyour ownspokenaloud or in the mindmuttered in secret or crumpled in a pocketat times reaching over the shore around the edges a wish to deeply connect is arising in metogether with the awareness of what it means to be lonely…
your callI crawl like foam along you marginswhere do you begin?I turn my body like you dodo you move differently further down? my words are laddersmapsneither 'for' nor 'of' nor 'about'the reason why I am here is you it's earlylet's…
wet swellingyour body growingyour mouth filling upyour lips open salty juicemy eyes sliding between hipsmy eyes laughingmy lips hungrydry waning when I go down to youI stand thereyou go placesbarely reflecting when I go down to youI see not youI…
I do not need to know the names of your washed colors anymoreI do not need to know your name anymorea different quietness is shielding mewrapped in jute I am folded carefully
gray dawnyellow foamI am peacefulalive to the possibilities of gray and yellow gray in your lightyellow in your shadeyou give me gray and yellowI give you gold
one smileand I forget every word standing with yousilentlywidewith you booming underneath forebodingsolemnwild
'spurn point' birdsa caterpillarthe sun totems and other mighty confluences I am were you end I end
