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11/02

Lucid Memories by Kevin Laminto

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Waterborne Magazine 11/02/19 Issue º 2

FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Elisa Mantovani

MANAGING EDITOR Neil Hampshire

DESIGN EDITOR Nikki Ritmeijer

FILM EDITOR

Alice Aires

MUSIC DIRECTOR Michael Mendones

MUSIC TRAILER Isabella Bock

LAYOUT AND ART DIRECTION Elisa Mantovani

CONTACT

Cover: Maite de Orbe

Left: Elisa Mantovani

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CONTRIBUTORS ALICE AIRES Multimedia Artist Filmmaker Motion Designer Portugal ALICE ANCIENT Musician Artist England

DEEMA NEPHELE Creative Freelancer Lebanon/Greece

LEWIS WASILEWSKI Various Poland/Scotland

EMMA DAY Artist Writer England

LIA WEINMAN Artist United States of America

ALEXANDER BATES Neuroscience PhD Student, University of Cambridge England

FERNANDA MORENO SEPTIEN / MOSEP Art History Student, University of the Cloister of Sor Juana Mexico

ANDREW COOPER Photographer Traveller England

FILIPPO LOCATELLI Photographer Filmmaker Italy

BEATRICE GIOVANNINI Graphic Designer Motion Designer Italy

ISABELLA MORAITI / IZZY MORITARY Filmmaker Photographer Visual Artist Greece/Netherlands

BEN SMITH Performance Artist England BETH MACIOROWSKI Self-taught Film Photographer United States of America CADHLA KENNEDY KO Filmmaker, Photographer Spain/Ireland/Philippines CHIARA DILETTA Photographer Italy DAISY JORGENSEN Actor Amateur Poet England/Norway DANIEL WOODFIELD Photographer England

JAMES PEARSON Artist Australia JIMENA GARCIA ÁLVAREZ-BUYLLA Artist Mexico

LUIGI ZANGARO Artist Italy MARIA KOULOURI Social Anthropology PhD Student, University of St. Andrews Greece MAITE DE ORBE / MOMO Unemployed Philosopher Photographer Spain

PAUL OSBORN Heating Engineer Psychonaut Expressionist England RICO QUINTAS Photographer South Africa ROMÁN CADAFALCH Living ‘Til the End Spain TAMARA GOUTAS Artist Mexico ZEINA ABEDRABO Art History Student Sometimes creative Working in a Gallery Palestine

MICHAEL MENDONES Digital Shaman Sound Healer Musician Poet Photographer Philippines/England MIRCHA IVENS Multidisciplinary Artist Curator Romania

KEVIN LAMINTO Student Photographer Indonesia

REBECCA MASTROROCCO Multidisciplinary Writer Performer Italy

LAUREN DRESCHER Artist United States of America

MARCO FUGGAZZA Musician Italy

LAIA SERRATOSA CAPDEVILA Creative Writing Student MSt., University of Oxford Catalonia

OMAR AL KAISSI Self-taught Painter Draftsman Iraq/Austria

by Cadhla Kennedy Ko

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Triplicity Sun: Creator, Preservator, Destroyer by Chiara Diletta

Limbs, Bubbles and Rainbows II by Elisa Mantovani

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Limbs, Bubbles and Rainbows: Self Portrait

EDITOR’S LETTER Dear Reader,

Throughout the ages, water has held a significant position in human thought, from the desert dweller’s oasis ensconced in palm trees to the vast cerulean which engulfs the tiny voyaging ship. Men and water have long been engaged in a continuous process of mutual transformation and shared transfiguration, though now certainly many of these more recent transformations feel less mutually beneficial, less good.

Water unravels itself to men as a substance which releases thirst, the giver of life that covers 71% of the Earth’s surface through streams, lakes, rivers and oceans, wherein life originated. Water’s remarkable qualities course through the works revealed in our waterborne issue, stirring in the viewer some fresh reflections on the element. Water poses many questions: Why does it have the highest surface tension of all liquids? How, in defiance of the Earth’s gravity, is water able to rise through the trunks of gigantic trees, against tens of atmospheres of pressure? Like its physical-world counterpart, the water which infuses the work presented in this issue similarly refuses to adhere to rigid categorisation, presenting a challenge to that which has come before. But water is also the fluid that courses through our and all living organism’s bodies, a uniting facet between the Earth and its inhabitants. This is what has given Water its significance as a purifier in many religions, ancient spiritual ceremonies and ritual washing and other practices across the entire globe.

One of my favourite passages from Herman Hesse’s novel Narcissus and Goldmund compares water’s mysterious qualities to woven dreams, and fragments of the soul: “All true mysteries, it seemed to him, were just like this mysterious water; all true images of the soul were like this: they had no precise contour or shape: they only could be guessed at, a beautiful distant possibility that was veiled in many meanings. […] How could these things be so beautiful, this golden glow underneath the water, these shadows and insinuations, all these unreal, fairylike apparitions—so inexpressibly beautiful and delightful.”

The content of this issue explores water through many angles and multiple perspectives, the issue is threaded together in flux, it does away with the systemic divisions and categorisations of the first issue in favour of a steady ebb and flow, guiding the reader from work to work, at times moving all together and at others taking sudden new turns. I leave it up to the reader to decide how one element, work, or study relates and shifts into the next. Invict/ us continues to integrate eco-conscious work and social problematics through aesthetics, with just a hint of magic. Every piece in this issue is considered, is like a water drop, a medium of reflection, a source of information and a creative unfolding.

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“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

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Weird ass sea monster that skis on ultra violet rays by Elisa Mantovani

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SHAMANIC POWERS OF WATER

by Maria Koulouri

‘...AND FINALLY A WOLF NAMED SKÖLL WILL OPEN HIS JAWS AND EAT THE SUN’

38 KIDS,

by Andrew Cooper

I BOUGHT US A PRIVATE SWIMMING POOL. “THE BRONSWIK AFFAIR”

by Fernanda Moreno

ALL

PURSUITS by Paul Osborn

18 SEA

16 BENEATH

36 THE

SHADOWS

by Zeina Abedrabo

20 (EXTRA) ORDINARY

WATER by Beatrice Giovannini

40 INVICTUS YACHTS by Alexander Bates 42 WATERS OF MIND by Tamara Goutas 44 RETURN TO THE

SACRED WATERS

by Alice Ancient

OPEN SEA by Filippo Locatelli 72

QING JING by Rico Quintas 78

NOSTALGIA by Román Cadafalch

OH WHALE

by Daisy Jorgensen

OVERLAPPING MOMENTS

by Beth Maciorowski

94 SENSUOUS

CEPHALOPOD EXPLORATION

by Jimena García Alvarez-Buylla

ANIMA LABYRINTH by Lia Weinman

KASPER by Lewis Wasilewski

THE KOI DRAGON by James Pearson

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BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANITY STRUGGLING TO CONTAIN WATER

by Mircha Ivens 30 ON

WHY ONIONS MAKE YOU CRY

by Maite de Orbe

by Daniel Woodfield & Rebecca Mastrorocco

INCANDESCNET NUMBERS by Deema Nephele 100

WATER HAS NO MASTER

by Ben Smith

by Emma Day

JEWELS

RIVER DANCE

by Omar al Kaissi

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DEEP SEA DIVE

by Laia Serratosa

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by Alice Aires

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by Isabella Moraiti

WHEN BEAMS OF LIGHT RUN LOW

RUNNING BREATH by Alice Aires

OLYMPICS

TEN THOUSAND STEPS TO SEE YOU AND THE WIND WHISPERED YOUR NAME by Michael Mendones

TOMITA, MERTENSIA OVUM ON EARTH by Laia Serratosa

THE FOREST OF JELLYFISH

CONTENT S

8 UNDER THE SEA by Lauren Drescher

Gran Sasso, Corno Piccolo by Chiara Diletta

Visible sun circle behind the mountainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock,

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Under the Sea

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UNDER THE SEA by Lauren Drescher

Lauren Drescher is a New York-born artist who currently resides between the French Pyrenees, London and New Zealand. These works are from her BĂŞtes Humaines series which follows the theme of sentience and our often tenuous connection with nature. Lauren is a full time artist, former midwife, gardener, sea swimmer, lover of the mountains and nature, and dedicated vegan, and her included works are rendered in drypoint, watercolor and pencil on antique English Ledger paper.

We are inseparable from Nature. www.ldrescher.com // @lauren.drescher //

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Under the Sea II

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Swirling Dark

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‘...AND FINALLY A WOLF NAMED SKÖLL WILL OPEN HIS JAWS AND EAT THE SUN’ by Andrew Cooper

Slow Apocalypse

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Beneath all Pursuits

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BENEATH ALL PURSUITS Words and image by

Paul Osborn

I see myself,

I see the truth of it all, I see the way it is, And isn’t at all. I see the beauty, Undiscovered in me, Stories shrinking, Foiled and free. Embroiled by chaos, A path unknown, It’s in stillness, I find myself home. No need for your name, I know we’re the same, We’ve found something, That forever remains. Beyond all words, Beyond all we’ve known, Beyond the beyond, In the moment we glow.

Sea Shadows, film photography (35mm) and glue, Handmade collage

Crashing Waves and Stable Dunes

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SEA SHADOWS by Zeina Abedrabo

Through her travels, Zeina captures the ocean, the beach and the landscape of immense hues; blues and greens, as emitted by the sea. She constructs the collages herself, using solely her own archive, visually manipulating and changing fragments of her own memories to create new images and even places.

An Obscure Place

“It’s the simplicity of this technique that keeps the authenticity of the images alive” she tells us; “no complicated software no high-tech digital camera just pure-form images captured and realigned to create fresh perspectives. Making these collages turns into a bit of a game, I don’t plan or envision the final result. Instead I explore my past and look through what has already been captured and then I try to manipulate, combine and modify the pictures into a constructed image, never really knowing what I will end up with. The ocean and the water are a constant occurrence in her photography, she says that no matter how many times she faces the sea she cannot help but seek to capture it, “to hold on eternally to the calmness, peace and tranquillity it offers me.”

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(EXTRA) ORDINARY WATER When the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Different perspective, different beauty. by

Beatrice Giovannini

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Beatrice is a cross-disciplinary designer working with static and moving image based in Milan. Her video is a quiet, contemplative examination of water, evoking the attitude of John Berger in his own caring explorations of the oft-overlooked. She tells us that the video was realized entirely through her own personal footage, with just a touch of post-production.

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ANIMA LABYRINTH Words and image by

Lia Weinman

Rabbit in the moon Light the darkest tomb The waves weaving a sounding crash of threaded song The wind makes me a flute for her to play breathing cool rain upon my pores I smell what I see Between the borders of light Between the reflections spun in the night There is the friction fire momentous Round and blue The hands of sea sprayed cheeks are veiled with sheer black fabrics embroidered by ash and water Radical is the heart alive and breaking into grains of sand Scattered in mouthfuls Dissolving to the sun and gifted to the wind There is always more Rain is the taste of surrender And it will set you free

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KASPER At war with spectres of the past Words and image by

Lewis Wasilewski

Short and sweet, but always not long enough. We used to bum around Europe a lot with my friends. Hitchhiking, sleeping in abandoned houses and roadside parking lots. When we grew older, went to university, got jobs and moved it became harder to get us all together and the moments of laughter that we shared have become too few and too far between. These days, on the rare occasion that we get to meet, through our conversations we try to find that closeness that we once shared, we try to allow ourselves the chance to find it.

Our time together has become a scarce commodity, and sometimes grabbing for our past connections blinds us from seeing who we’ve become. We all change, and very rarely does that happen in the way we expected, and we reach into the past to try to feel how we did back when. But reality is what it is. Most of the time we can only understand the significance of a moment when we look back on it rather than when we observe it unfold in front of us. Maybe now, when most of the time I spend with my friends is in my memories, I feel closer to them than ever before. Maybe next time instead of talking about work and what’s next, we’ll run to the lake laughing like we used to. Maybe not, but we won’t stop trying.

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THE KOI DRAGON Words and image by

James Pearson

An ancient tale tells of schools of golden Koi swimming upstream to reach the Rainbow Gate.

Seeing the efforts of the Koi, the Demons of the land mocked them by turning the river into a waterfall.

Many gave up, and let the flow of the river carry them away.

However a single Koi persisted for a hundred years, until he finally reached the top of the waterfall.

The gods saw this and blessed him on account of his determination by transforming the Koi into a golden dragon.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANITY STRUGGLING TO CONTAIN WATER by Mircha Ivens

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Ink on Toned Paper

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ON WHY ONIONS MAKE YOU CRY by Maite de Orbe

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35 mm film/ on Kodak Porta 400

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35mm film/ Kodak Porta 400

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This series talks about the magical absurdity of boredom and how this is a universal experience common to all human beings. It also plays around the idea of floating in thoughts so much that one might actually end up lost in them in a physical way, escaping from the real world and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nonsense.

maite.orbe@gmail.com // www.maitedeorbe.com // @maitedeorbe //

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THE SHAMANIC POWER OF WATER Meditations on water and its omnipresent nature Words and image by

Maria Koulouri

Our human bodies consist of

Why water? Billions of years ago,

infinite cells, each of those comprised

life began to emerge from the sea.

mostly of water. It might seem

A healer in Ecuador named Ruben told

absurd that humans change their mood

me that the water ages too. The sea

depending on the cycles of the moon

is probably the oldest water form.

but in the end this enormous satellite

The sea is our Mother, the water our

is the main controller of water flow

first home, the womb of the mother.

in seas, rivers, and oceans. If this

It was there where our human existence

vast area of water on planet Earth can

started taking form, consisting of

be manipulated why not humans too?

consciousness and energy. We grew in water and therefore we carry its consciousness, its energetic power.

Humans contain a concentrated

In the American Shamanic

amount of water, nevertheless large

tradition, a popular ritual is the

in proportion to our body mass. There

Temazcal (Nahuatl language). It is a

is something magical about water

very ancient sweat lodge (perhaps the

and a secret power in it. Water

oldest of this type) and is representing

symbolises the feminine curative

our first creation: the womb of the

energy, fertility and our hidden

mother. Its construction is a circular

emotions, according to Rita, a Shaman

wooden lodge with soft interlaced

and artist in Pachacamac, Peru.

branches; low enough so that each

Water is also the main component of

ceremony participant has to crawl to

spiritual healing and purification

take a seat around the main circle. At

in traditional medicine. Herbal,

Temazcal ceremonies water is the main

medicinal plants are boiled with

element of heat as it is being poured

water before application to the body.

onto red-hot volcanic rocks (las abuelas - meaning the grandmothers) that are previously heated in a sacred fire.

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Inipi under construction for Temezcal ceremony, Pachacamac, Peru

The Earth mother ceremony has

The ceremony is carried out in

four rounds, each dedicated to an

complete darkness which can bring a lot

element accompanied by the setting

of emotions as the sound of the water

of a purpose or intention, prayers

on the hot rocks feels

and songs with maraka and tambor,

a place where time is infinite and

traditional musical instruments. These

cyclical. Temazcal participants would

four rounds are called doors, each

symbolically die while adopting the

one of those opening a new way of

fetal position in the womb of the

understanding the Cosmos and ourselves

mother and would be reborn when the

in it. Each door is supported by four

fourth door opens. Water symbolises

medicinal songs about the elements

our power, our retreat, and if we

of air, water, fire and earth.

remain aware we can attune to its

primordial in

changing energy, learning to release our fears and swim in our strengths.

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KIDS, I BOUGHT US A PRIVATE SWIMMING POOL. “THE BRONSWIK AFFAIR” Fiction and reality interplay, publicity and documentary fiction are sewn together in the same screen by

Fernanda Moreno Septién / MOSEP

Fernanda is a student of art history in Mexico, though here we are presented with a collage that she has made in response to the theme of water. The collage is part of a series which relates to the restlessness of the human psyche, as represented by the archetypal image of the liquid, again relating to the unseen or the occult navigating through deep and dark waters, past unseen undercurrents. Fernanda tells us “The body has its own forms of liquid (amniotic waters), and as tidal currents, we are continuously reconfigured.” Within the collage Fernanda uses cuttings of the anarchitectural works by Gordon Matta-Clark, overlapped with erotic photography of the 1950s. The curves and details of the naked bodies positioned around architecture and images of ponds, rivers and whirlpools become entangled on the search to make an invisible energy visible. “The rhythm each one carries determines the flux of matter, so the collage series revolves into an excuse to think about patterns reflecting upon ourselves and the world we are living in.” The Bronswik Affair is the title of a fictitious documentary filmed by André Ledúc in which citizens are interviewed as though they were victims of spontaneous consumerism, thanks to the excessive amounts of branding on television. The collage consists of cutouts taken from a real magazine exclusively advertising private swimming pools. Fiction and reality get to play, publicity and documentary fiction are sewn together in the same screen.

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Kids, I bought us a private swimming pool

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INVICTUS YACHTS Big men, big yachts and big deck lengths Words by Image by

Alexander Bates Luigi Zangaro

Granchi 99. Deck length 6 m, $29,999. A brave new concept, its compact dimensions, deep hull and outboard engine might make it look like a fishing boat, but know you are still one of the ‘have yachts’ (just). And no, really, it’s not all about the cool name, I mean, if we’d called it the Predator or something, it would just look more ridiculous. The epitome of careful design, the Granchi’s innovative fenders and wide coaming board can break your fall if, when you leap, you decide, actually, you don’t want to plunge to your watery death and twist and flail in the air for something, oh God anything, to grab onto at the last moment. Fully retractable. Good for 3.7 inches flaccid.

Phantom SX. Deck length 8.3 m, $56,000. For the eclectic owner, a man who understands the open ocean, watersports and the existential pangs of complete, unbroken isolation. A hybrid of sport and comfort, the Phantom SX combines a sharp and sturdy halfreverse bow with a generic, desperate desire to enjoy oneself in the face of marrow-deep anhedonia. Options for the bow area include a comfy dinette and table, or a stylish chaise longue. Seats one. Will ease egos from 3.4 inches flaccid, 4.1 inches erect.

Big Blue L60. Deck length 16.4 m, $85,500. Warm, elegant and spacious, with cream soft furnishing and bespoke oaken woodwork, the Blue marries comfort and exquisite beauty with almost maternal care. The onboard AI is capable of responding to voice commands, opening sails, blinds and microwaving readymeals. It can tell you it’s proud of you and proud that you did that MBA it made you do, even though what you really wanted was go to art school and, yes, it’s just an algorithm,

but ultimately you are also no more than an automaton, doomed to repeat your failures under the weight of an unforgiving history until you are nothing but ash and dust and rat faeces. Suitable for a 3.7 inch, flaccid.

Monarch F4000. Deck length 23.8 m, $2,760,000. This tall, peerless vessel, made from rich materials and strong character is a king of the seas. Aboard, you are Rex, and like the porphyric King George III of the United Kingdom or the mighty Emperor Nero, unquestionable and perfectly stable. There is cabin space for ten; you can probably whip that many up with a round-robin office e-mail. Sure, they may feel obligated, maybe you don’t have real friends, but then, you are peerless. Opening side panels that convert into a waterfront terrace serve as a constant reminder that while all men must die, few die with sliding side panels that convert into a waterfront terrace. Will do for 3.6 inches flaccid, 4.5 erect.

Seahawk XX. Deck length 25.1 m, $3,345,000. Total performance. Style without compromise. Feel the fresh sea spray as you cruise along with the Seahawk’s Maxum 350 HP engine at over 40 kn with, sure, that beautiful blonde from our advert and our movable bar. Coast straight through those azure Mediterranean and highly endangered coastlines, and really right over those uppity colleagues who thought they might best you, right past your second ex-wife, that estranged eldest daughter, not even glancing at the regular vagabond woutside your office block or that thick, fundamental disquiet broiling in the deepest pits of your soul. Perfect from 3.8 inches flaccid and 5 erect with viagra.

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Leviathan Platinum Series. Deck length 77 m, $275,000,000. With the widest aft of a boat this size, the Leviathan dictates its terms on comfort and can probably, no yes definitely, fit half a dozen young models on its prow. Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that be good? For a man who, sure, can navigate Tinder, but prefers to hang around the actual bar at bars, in with the crowds half his age in a totally cool, mysterious way. Fully customisable below deck spaces always offer a large dressing room with head. Though you are still unlikely to be getting any. Substitutes well for those from 2.4 inches flaccid, 3.3 erect, as well as for tiny, tiny balls.

Swan Pedalo. Deck length negligible, $200. Have to be at least a hefty 7 inches flaccid and a swinging 12 erect. Comes with a novelty pair of super tight Speedos.

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WATERS OF MIND by

Tamara Goutas

Tamaraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work reflects on the wonders of exploring the subconscious world, coming to birth from a series of hand drawn self-portraits and digital manipulation, Waters of Mind seeks to be the very essence of a curious spirit.

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RETURN TO THE

Alice Ancient

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S A C R E D W A T E R S

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Alice is a musician and multidisciplinary artist whose work is steeped in natural imagery and introspection. There’s a convincing connection between elements in her images much as there is between her different creative outputs; everything flows.

“I am a flame Carried in water. I put my feet in many different streams. Fluidic, receptive, I reflect on my stillness. It’s here I can share my gift of song and illustrate the filtered deep river pearls, a resounding wisdom that’s accepted and speaks to the resounding wisdom in the listener, the purveyor. So to be seen and see itself rise and shine.” Everything reflects everything down to an infinitesimal scale, divisions have been eradicated as form bleeds into form. “I am a creative channel and bridge. All my creations are co-created with the elements I tune into as with my own inner wellspring. My purest of places.

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I am a singer and a multidisciplinary and illustrative artist who likes to create ceremonial and spontaneous art, delivering visions through site specific performances with soul sisters and within my band The Butterflywheel.”

Alice as part of musical duo, The Butterflywheel. Styling, costume and headpiece by Uhurumatahari. Photo by Nicole Frobusch

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Water Altar

Water altar, painted with chalice spring water. The paints are made from mineral pigment, including azurite and malachite on hemp paper.

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‘Midwives of paradise’ and ‘healing the ancient wound’ are framed by collected pieces of nature from Alice and her partner, Darren Brock’s, journey to the sacred waters. In the middle lies one of his hand engraved bottles.

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Darren Brock testing the purity of St Brigids well water, Ireland

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Glencar waterfall

Well below the Hill of Tara, Ireland

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by Cadhla Kennedy Ko

Silent Healing

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When Beams Of Light Run Low

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WHEN BEAMS OF LIGHT RUN LOW by

Daniel Woodfield & Rebecca Lea Mastrorocco

Body, Soul and the Flow Of Water in The River Dart

Still In Life

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JEWELS Words by

Ben Smith

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ords cannot deliver, what the heart has to express she Speaks her own un-spoken language, within her own impulse of breath, ———— ——- —- ragile / ull of strength umping life / creaming death,

_=_

,,,,,,

different kind of common sense - few can suppress

or she says just as she sees and we ignore or we appease but either way she still distorts what we believe Quite

So..

if she’s too stubborn to deny is she a Rapist or a Revelated or

weather the

Indeed,

——- -

Guide?

Contrived?

tempest, or the tide,

Rapidly!

she surely represents the waters that lie there inside.

, ,,,

the heart is the weather system of the self as in turn our sex and the mind a mass of land that gives the s p a c e, \ \ \

the inner climate is fire and magma that ignites it and promise to define it | | |

but if honest i resent it

if water’s life then why decant it? all this internet and sex, all this land and fire and intellect has left me feeling sceptic and deceptive! I’d rather trust in water thats: adaptably reflective, All-encompassing, Eclectic, Esoteric and Receptive

let me drink until I burst, let me swim until I drown, let me piss, and cry, and sweat, and wallow in it till I’m found….. let me dive into the ocean, let me sink alike the stone let me suffer…

FOR IT’S LOVE THAT I HAVE CHOSEN

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River Dance 120x95 cm, Oil on canvas

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RIVER DANCE by

Omar Al Kaissi

Omar Al Kaissi is a self-taught painter and draftsman whose work typically examines the surreal. He tells us of his inspiration drawn from mythological tales, often with an emphasis on orientalism.

HAMMAM 100x100 cm

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RUNNING BREATH by

Alice Aires

Running breath is a contemplative video with the aim to help the viewer relax and calm down anxiety and stress.

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OLYMPICS THE NATURAL WORLD LITERALLY FLOODS WITH BEAUTY by

Alice Aires

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Alice describes her creative process as being inextricably tied with the process of dreaming, she tells us dreaming has the power to put you in touch with the most mystical facets of life, a space wherein the imagination is free of limitation entirely. Coincidentally or not, Alice and a member of the band for whom her video was made had a very similar dream, in which both witnessed anemones and other animals afloat in the sky. “That was the starting point for the idea of the video.”

The natural world literally floods with beauty in time to the song Time For T . The song challenges us to get entangled in the beauty of Nature. “I decided to combine the elements that inspire me most, like the sea and the stars, because I admire her beauty a lot. I wanted to give her a fantastic touch, because dreaming is a way of being in direct contact with creativity. Thank you very much for the help of Adriana Xavier who danced on the cliffs and swam in icy waters, all to give the fantastic touch that the music deserves!”

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TEN THOUSAND STEPS TO SEE YOU AND THE WIND WHISPERED YOUR NAME by

Michael Mendones

And I plunged, with one deep oxygenating breath, free diving into your tears, eyes shining liquid for a love not shared, a warmth not shown. As you ate lentils flowingly, as your kind eyes fed me knowledge, We sat in quiet dim light as stories of time unfolded like unchained nucleotides, revealing what made you in the now. I had pursued you, one slow, tortured step at a time, with no map to guide me through intoxicated revellers, crushed by the mass, sub bass juddering as my heart thumped hard.

While you moved ahead each time I was close. Wanting to give up, I recalled my hand on your back in the park, transmitting messages back and forth in warm energy waves while the drums rang and the spinners span twirls, fire trails and geometrics, as mesmerising as you. Your beauty struck me like a Greek saga as I sat in the restaurant, spent, glad that the golden fleece was found, watching those hands sculpting science fiction narratives and spacetime speculations. I marvelled at your quick mind and its disparate connections, the way it darted from here to there like squirrels caught between humans and trees. We sat eating gelato in front of a house of strangers, in such comfortable companionship though it was our first. A butterfly, starkly defined by harsh lights, edges hyperreal, captured your ways of seeing. I see you and there is no need for doubt, Your trembling hand encircled and safe. Though I have lived countless lives before, I want to be taken back to our island where we swam free, where the ruins you floated over lived in the glorious past. We look at the horizon, ever closer, wondering what our post-human condition will be. Yet here I have found my Euterpe, my Calliope. The wind sang all the way home: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Me-li-na, Me-li-na, Me-li-naâ&#x20AC;?, caressing me with your name and I, for the first time, in eternity, felt free.

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Melina Paneris underwater

“This poem was inspired by my fitness tracker telling me how many steps I had to take to catch up with Melina Paneris at Notting Hill Carnival after trying to catch up with her on numerous occasions, only to find she had moved on to somewhere new. The poem describes the events after I finally linked up with her after carnival had ended, and the magical experiences of connection we had. The music that accompanies the poem was guided by her stories of her Greek island and her love of free-diving and water.”

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OPEN SEA by

Filippo Locatelli

Filippo is a London-based photographer originally hailing from Bergamo, Italy. Lampedusa, the subject of this series of photographs, is an island off the coast of Southern Italy, with a history of fishing and a record of astounding natural beauty to match. In his images, the water becomes the unsung hero. Its entity is the force majeure that regulates the rhythm and the dynamics of the Island and the lives it houses.

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QING-JING by

Rico Quintas

“Qing-Jing: dialectical relationship of reciprocal becoming between man and nature: the human feeling can unfold in the landscape, and for its parts the landscape is endowed with feeling. The two of them are engaged in a process of mutual transformation and shared transfiguration” - François Cheng

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NOSTALGIA by

Romรกn Cadafalch

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Surrender by the open sea

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Shauman Lovers by Elisa Mantovani

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OH WHA Words by

Daisy Jorgensen

Weight of worlds on marrow made blades. Sober eyes salt-stung by helpless souls out at sea. Oil slick veins size of roads, heavy on this heart. Journey of so many miles, And it all ends here, Organs in man made jars. Sticky fingers up against panes. Small talk sound waves. Or so we think. Oh whale.

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LE Edo Japan : Anonymous, section detail of “Geig yo Hinshu Zukan” (Fourteen Varieties of Whales) (1760) (all images courtesy New Bedford Whaling Museum)

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Heatwave, 35 mm

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OVERLAPPING MOMENTS by

Beth Maciorowski

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will I see you on the other side, 35mm film

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continuously fetching sticks, 35mm film

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Woman sitting and shivering

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SENSUOUS CEPHALOPOD EXPLORATION by

Jimena García Álvarez-Buylla

The pieces proposed to us here by Jimena are a small selection from a body of work called “Sensuous Cephalopod Exploration”. The collection consists primarily of watercolors and oil paintings that explore the relationship between water, the body and the erotic. While following this theme, and swimming amongst a Bermuda triangle of her own creation, Jimena talks about creating a small imaginarium of images and sounds that, as it grows, reveals the relationship between the three aforementioned elements. The more this exploration deepens, the more perspectives are revealed and the more robustly the relationship between the three is understood, with all of its complexities.

Girl Diver Is Octopi • Sensuous Cephalopod Exploration, 2018

Woman sitting and shivering • Sensuous Cephalopod Exploration, 2018

Octopus searching for something amongst rocks • Sensuous Cephalopod Exploration, 2018

“This image is the only one in the series that deals directly and solely with the body - the erotic. For this printing I have added a blue digital square and a red one, both to bring in a color-code dynamic of water and fire. I like to imagine that the red square comes in to represent the circle in the first image. The woman sitting and shivering observed the octopus searching for something amongst the rocks, and wonders and feels. This relationship is only intended as a suggestion.”

“The Dream of a Fisherman’s Wife is the most well known Shunga woodcut by Hokusai. In it he depicts Tamatori Hime (a shell diver) in an erotic encounter with two octopi. Throughout this exploration I’ve come to consider that if we become what we desire deeply (that which eroticises us the most, that which provides a reason to keep on living), if Tamatori desired the octopi enough to dive (to enter an alien ecosystem, even to traverse it in an alien manner) for them, she herself surely became an octopus later on. This work is a small consideration on loving an other (the other) and becoming othered.”

“This image is one of the first in the series. The octopus (Sensuous Cephalopod Exploration) explores the bottom of the ocean, unknowing of what she may find. She is suspended, lightly, in the water as the weight of her body pulls her towards the rocky bottom. Her body is an anchor. This piece meditates on weight.”

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Girl Diver Is Octopi

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INCANDESCENT NUMBERS Words and image by

Deema Nephele

Roaring shores with rising tides, wavering along fragmented sands, winds uprooting the deep, departed with what was.

Ploughed fields of ashes. Scattered.

Here I am gently woken, listening to the infinite song, of incandescent numbers.

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Skaftafell Iceland, Falljรถkull Glacier (translates to falling glacier)

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WATER HAS NO MASTER About the path water carves by

Emma Day

Emma Day presents us with a selection of photographs and drawings of glaciers in Iceland, Greenland, Canada and New Zealand. The glaciers appear pristine from above, but reveal their intricacies to us when closer, and further bifurcate in her energetic drawings. She writes of water crawling and flowing as it wishes, flooding our landscape both far and free. Water has no masters: “We try to control it but often it still breaks free.”

Emma’s work neatly captures several faces of water, a cross-examination of a formless subject. “We fly over it. We look down on it. The magical landscapes that water moulds itself into. The landscapes that water, or more to the point frozen water, moulds itself onto. The mountains, the glaciers, the forest, the trees, the flatlands and numerous other spaces. We are surrounded.”

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Skaftafell Iceland, Falljรถkull Glacier

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Images of Greenland from a plane

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DEEP-SEA DIVE Words by

Laia Serratosa

As stars give away the night, the sea is mostly dark Two hundred meters below the surface, bar the specks Of bioluminescence carved into, around, or Behind the bodies of watchful prey and predators.

Swift blue fireflies over marble eyes, quasi-sheer squid

Wonder by, imitating the ocean on their sides

To gather small fish in their guarded feeding organs

In turn feeding somewhere else the open loosely hinged

Mouth of a gulper eel. Take the tail below its wide

Umbrella, seductress, tipped with a flashing red light;

Take the crazed expression floating adrift through vastness

As though raptured by an unexpected harmony

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The endless expanding of a trillion galaxies

Hurricanes on Jupiter, and teeth sinking into

The gulper eel, squirming its tail in stern resistance â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

There is a wondrous harmony in the universe!

Butchered fish, with limp light bulbs no longer luminous

Rapid meteorites crashing into lively planets

The austere breeds the austere to reveal as a fact

The queer aesthetics of pure visceral violence.

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TOMITA, MERTENSIA OVUM ON EARTH Words by Image by

Laia Serratosa Alice Aires

It begins with iridescence, and a sort of movement Inward above, outward below, upward upward vertically;

A river of minuscule patterns like a high-pitched harp

Undulating its sounds around various objects but straight

To a listener open and still as a ripple in spring.

Hear the twinkling scales make way for a more epic narrative

Of space shuttles and Zarathustra; a crystalline clink

And suddenly unicorns! On the wall of all and none

There is always everything, even aliens and skeletons in

Entwined over-sized court gowns, beckoning to us Come, Come, we are waiting; then an agreement is made and rain

Settles in – like long hair outside the shower and into

The sewer, no – river, no – sea, and frog finger notes: pwong: pwong: softer than alpaca faces smiling back in the mirror And running off, in gorgeousness and bliss, back to an iceberg somewhere

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Cold and sparkly with celadon snowflakes and gelatin bells.

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THE FOREST OF THE JELLYFISH by

Isabella Moraiti

The element that connects both worlds, is also that which keeps both of them alive.

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