The colorful cobbles brought life to the yellow-brown hues of the sky. Movement inspired by the clear shallow riffles crossing gravel bars, and the laminar flows across the cobbles. Piles of large wood strewn and buried at this delta, across what seemed like miles. Seems like a delta you'd see at the coast. Imagining of salmon getting to this spot (they did not).
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This past year has been full of explorations of river, rock, trees, topography, and what matters about these. Once again, I find myself dividing up things - reducing them to their parts then putting them all back together into ‘landscape’. One of the tenants of somatic work through work is ‘Whole-Part-Whole” (from Irmgard Bartenieff)
The Pacific Northwest is the land of watersheds and systems thinking. Inherent in the ecological research (at least freshwater) is a very holistic (though hierarchical) viewpoint.
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