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Person,
Place, Thing
2004
Our body mass consists primarily of recycled water. Like bodies
of water such as lakes and rivers, human bodies need continuous
refills of water to compensate for their evaporation and excretion
of water. The water sustaining us now is the same water that
has contributed to creating and sustaining life for millions
of years, and is the same water that will continue to do so
for millions more. A glass or bottle of “drinking”
water has an elaborate, almost incomprehensible, history, having
potentially passed through people now dead for tens of thousands
of years, or through life forms now extinct. A person is, for
life, a moving, cycling body of borrowed water. My interest
in our water borrowing and how water transcends time and place
is the focus of this body of work. |
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