Breathlessly I tell a friend, “I just watched a couple fabulous films, each starring ‘water’ in the leading role. Won’t you sit with me and watch them?”
That particular friend just now is my seven year old Labradoodle, Iz. She might prefer to actually visit a bit of saltwater south of town. I believe she’d love Orkney.
I concentrated, squinted, to see a trout snatch a fly from the air. Perhaps as I looked away to have another gulp of coffee? Your film-poem “Sink” let me feel the water’s presence and movement just as water courses through all life on the planet. Mark’s own composition offered an interpretation of water, life, the speed of which suggested the movement of water and ecosystems across millions of years.
Thanks for cranking the engine of this Model T Ford. I might now be able to keep up with Iz on our morning walk. Past a pond.
Following Samantha's readings from wonderful Annie Dillard here is a link to a blog post from tapestry weaver, Rebecca Mezoff (not yet been persuaded to come to Substack) quoting writer, Ann Patchett on the transfiguration of an idea from creative mind to physical existence. https://rebeccamezoff.com/blog/2014/04/crushing-butterfly.html
Thank you Sam for sharing all of this wonder with us! I love the ocean. Your film was beautiful - and full and quiet and then sad and beautiful. And I did like being a seal in the 2nd film. And loved being in the water and seeing the rock and all the animals. See you tomorrow in my morning time here. Looking forward to being there with you and everyone!
So happy to watch/listen to both of these, thank you. Lovely text and images in the first; again something that one wants to share. Liked the second one too, very much, including the title. Was surprised at how much I preferred coming back to the surface each time the film did that; just the comfort of coming back to a familar perspective, perhaps. Thanks for both of them.
Edited to add: “the calligraphy of reeds” - so accurate and precise.
Thank you so much for sharing part of your place with us in this way--it is so beautiful. I live near water but it is a glacial-silt-filled inlet that boats and people can barely interact with--there is beauty in it but also an ease in forgetting that we are on the boundary where earth meets part of the sea. I love how it is so present in all of your work. 💦
Breathlessly I tell a friend, “I just watched a couple fabulous films, each starring ‘water’ in the leading role. Won’t you sit with me and watch them?”
That particular friend just now is my seven year old Labradoodle, Iz. She might prefer to actually visit a bit of saltwater south of town. I believe she’d love Orkney.
I concentrated, squinted, to see a trout snatch a fly from the air. Perhaps as I looked away to have another gulp of coffee? Your film-poem “Sink” let me feel the water’s presence and movement just as water courses through all life on the planet. Mark’s own composition offered an interpretation of water, life, the speed of which suggested the movement of water and ecosystems across millions of years.
Thanks for cranking the engine of this Model T Ford. I might now be able to keep up with Iz on our morning walk. Past a pond.
Following Samantha's readings from wonderful Annie Dillard here is a link to a blog post from tapestry weaver, Rebecca Mezoff (not yet been persuaded to come to Substack) quoting writer, Ann Patchett on the transfiguration of an idea from creative mind to physical existence. https://rebeccamezoff.com/blog/2014/04/crushing-butterfly.html
Thank you Sam for sharing all of this wonder with us! I love the ocean. Your film was beautiful - and full and quiet and then sad and beautiful. And I did like being a seal in the 2nd film. And loved being in the water and seeing the rock and all the animals. See you tomorrow in my morning time here. Looking forward to being there with you and everyone!
So happy to watch/listen to both of these, thank you. Lovely text and images in the first; again something that one wants to share. Liked the second one too, very much, including the title. Was surprised at how much I preferred coming back to the surface each time the film did that; just the comfort of coming back to a familar perspective, perhaps. Thanks for both of them.
Edited to add: “the calligraphy of reeds” - so accurate and precise.
Thanks for sharing these watery visions. I particularly enjoyed watching Mark Jenkins' film 'Surface'.
Hypnotic… I sit locked by land, mesmerised… thank you for sharing the magic of your sea.
Beautiful moments of quiet reflection
You are very fortunate to be where you are, when you are, who you are! Water is Life. Don't leave the windswept islands...
Thank you so much for sharing part of your place with us in this way--it is so beautiful. I live near water but it is a glacial-silt-filled inlet that boats and people can barely interact with--there is beauty in it but also an ease in forgetting that we are on the boundary where earth meets part of the sea. I love how it is so present in all of your work. 💦
Hi, I’ve tried to save the link to the life raft, but it takes me to the app, and there seems to be no way of saving links.
Karen