Paola Talbert

 Kairos Moment of Truth, 2006

http://www.unitedgalleries.com.au

PROJECT: SUBNAMBULISM
 
A new collaboration between a band, a photographer and a VJ taking you deep into the ocean. This project explores the swirling imagery of Paola Talbert’s underwater photography projected by VJ Jax onto the mighty Figureight Dome with an oceanographic soundtrack by Psychic Date.

About the Artists
Psychic Date is one of Sydney’s prime exponents of 21st century ambient psychedelica having existed in one form or other for 12 years. Its current line up is Pete Jones, Hiske Weijers and Adam Roche.
Paula Talbert is a Sydney based photographer who has exhibited work since 1989 and is represented by United Galleries in Sydney and Perth. Her photography featured at Underbelly comes from an ongoing series that began in 2000.
VJ Jax aka Jack Barton is a Sydney based visual artist exploring the correlations and conflicts between the organic and mechanica, fusing analogue with digital!

Paola Talbert

Paola Talbert is a local artist who has been exhibiting her photography in Sydney and regional NSW for the past twenty years. Her underwater figure photography is part of a continuing series that has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne since 2001. In 2007, she was invited to exhibit in the exhibition ‘Faccia Lei – Portraits in Transition’ at the Spazio Thetis, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice. She lectures in Photography at Tin Sheds Artworkshop, University of Sydney and City East Community College. Currently Talbert’s photography is represented by United Galleries.
paola__t@hotmail.com
www.readbeard.org/beard/index.html 

integrity

http://www.sarahjanepell.com/Hydromedusa.htm

http://www.sarahjanepell.com/

Ikelite!!!! arrived

the dome arrived ... big eye on the underworld!

universal water west marrin

To what degree do we try to manipulate nature so that we can live where we want to, and how much do we go back to a system where we live where the earth supports us and the water supports us? 
In an age where we see water as a commodity to be bought and sold and we attempt to control it in the hope that it will serve our immediate needs, Dr. West Marrin invites us to reexamine our relationship to this substance, which the ancients viewed as a sentient being. He brings both his scientific training and his passion for surfing to explore water's geological and biochemical properties, its mystical qualities and the ecological issues that we must address if we are to survive.

free floating

Large bodies of water are frequently symbols of the unconscious
http://www.ted.com/speakers/roz_savage.html
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What has been accomplished in the engineering of the Napali is a new, fully versatile breed of kayak that is exceptional from any perspective. Clarity is its core, intelligent design its gift. It is not without a cause that the Museum of Modern Art in NYC decided to feature the Napali as a permanent piece of exhibition starting in Fall 2004. 

s k r y i n g

Scrying Water

Scrying comes from the Old English word descry meaning "to make out dimly" or "to reveal." Adding the prefix/suffix 'be' (often 'gye' in Germanic languages), gives us the modern word 'describe'. 

The technique of deliberately looking for and declaring these initial images aloud, however trivial or irrelevant they may seem to the conscious mind, is done with the intent of deepening the trance state, wherein the scryer hears their own disassociated voice affirming what is seen within the concentrated state in a kind of feedback loop. This process culminates in the achievement of a final and desired end stage in which visual images and dramatic stories seem to be projected within the mind's eye of the scryer, like an inner movie. This overall process reputedly allows the scryer to "see" relevant events or images within the chosen medium.

Scrying has been used for thousands of years by different cultures. Ancient Egypt used scrying in their Initiations. This included water scrying, dream scrying, oil scrying, and mirror scrying.

Ancient Persia -- the Shahnama, a semi-historical epic work written in the late 10th century, gives a description of what was called the Cup of Jamshid, used in pre-Islamic Persia, which was used by wizards and practitioners of the esoteric sciences for observing all the seven layers of the universe.

Ancient Greeks and Celts practiced scrying using beryl, crystal, black glass, polished quartz, water, and other transparent or light catching bodies. Nostradamus is believed to have employed a small bowl of water as a scrying tool into which he gazed and received images of future events.

Scrying has been used in many cultures as a means of divining the past, present, or future. Depending on the culture and practice, the visions that come when one stares into the media are thought to come from the subconscious.  

The Ganzfeld experiment is a sensory deprivation experiment inspired by scrying. According to the small community of parapsychologists

Parapsychology

Parapsychology is a controversial discipline that seeks to investigate the existence and causes of psychic abilities and life after death using the scientific method

Ganzfeld experiment

A ganzfeld experiment is a technique used in the field of parapsychology to test individuals for extrasensory perception . It uses homogeneous and unpatterned sensory stimulation to produce an effect similar to sensory deprivation. The deprivation of patterned sensory input is said to be conducive...

Sensory deprivation

, it provides the best known evidence for psi

Psi (parapsychology)

Psi is a term from parapsychology derived from the Greek, ψ psi, 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet; from the Greek ψυχή psyche, "mind, soul". -Etymology: abilities in the laboratory.

Scrying into bowls of pure water is a very old method of divination and vision seeking. Some people prefer to use clear crystal bowls; some prefer white bowls, and some prefer dark. It is important that the bowl be very clean prior to filling with water; a rinse with ammonia after cleaning is appropriate. The bowl is filled with pure water, and then is positioned so that light is not directly reflected onto the surface. The querant then gazes into the water until he or she sees, or otherwise senses, the desired information or contact. Similarly, natural bodies of water like lakes, tidal pools, ponds, and some moving water can be gazed into. Sit calmly at the water's edge, and gaze into the water. This requires a passively expectant, patient mindset.

Finally, wells can be used for scrying. One method involves leaning over backwards as you bend your head into the well, looking down at the water below. It is said that you will see your future. This method is often employed to see one's future spouse.

1% water exhibition

Opening to the Awe[full] ~ opening inner spaces

archetypal: Artemis, Shaman, Healer

a rift in the surface towards numinous corporeality

Yearning for Nature

Nature Deficit Disorder? The podcast/downloadable version of the show is about 15 minutes longer than the broadcast/streaming edition will be. I've popped in an extended version of the Richard Louv interview knowing he'll probably prove to be popular. Download it directly from the All in the Mind website
http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/player_launch.pl  


The sublime involves a longing/yearning for the awe[full] an Opening to the Awe[full]

the way of water

This book maintains that early Chinese philosophers, whatever their philosophical school, assumed common principles informed the natural and human worlds and that one could understand the nature of man by

Allan on Google Books

studying the principles which govern nature. Accordingly, the natural world rather than a religious tradition provided the root metaphors of early Chinese thought. Sarah Allan examines the concrete imagery, most importantly water and plant life, which served as a model for the most fundamental concepts in Chinese philosophy including such ideas as dao, the "way," de, "virtue" or "potency," xin, the "mind/heart," xing "nature," and qi, "vital energy." Water, with its extraordinarily rich capacity for generating imagery, provided the primary model for conceptualizing general cosmic principles while plants provided a model for the continuous sequence of generation, growth, reproduction, and death and was the basis for the Chinese understanding of the nature of man in both religion and philosophy.

Sarah Allan the way of water 1997 State University NY

Longhurst + Grosz

Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries

Robyn LonghursAccording to Longhurst, negotiating hegemonic discourses of geography means moving through and beyond these post-structural and postmodernist conceptualizations of bodies as sites of textual inscription. This is not to say Longhurst denies the discursive, political, and theoretical importance of theorists such as Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Rather, Longhurst allies herself with fellow feminist critical geographers with interests in theorizing a corporeal, messy material body - Rose and Elizabeth Grosz - thus privileging embodiment that does not "[take] flight from fluids and mess" (p. 133), which locates fluidity as a subversive borderline, liminal state. In thinking about fluids and corporeality, Longhurst also develops the thinking of both Grosz and Julia Kristeva around abjection. Abjection comes to mean exclusion and Other for Longhurst, the thing that is ugly, evacuated of pleasure, and disgusting in the face of more culturally desirable bodies in space. It is something that describes both an object and a zone. In this, disgust and desire are dialectically related, and in relation become a consideration that material bodies intentionally and unintentionally negotiate in spaces of cultural and social circulation. Abjection also allows Longhurst to set up the binaries she seeks to undermine and question in discourse: solid/fluid, mind/body, rational/irrational, public/private, concept/corporeal, male/female, desire/disgust, enunciation/ erasure.

Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 28, No 4 (2003)

from ~ http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/1394/1477

ni on water

New Internationalist     378     May 2005

Ecosystems / Water Water is a necessity for life. Yet, though life first evolved in the oceans, most terrestrial organisms cannot drink the salt water that makes up over 97 per cent of the world’s total. Of the fresh water that makes up the rest, more than 90 per cent is locked away in glaciers and ice sheets, or hidden deep underground. Only 0.0001 per cent of fresh water is easily accessible; human settlements are clustered along the waterways and fertile floodplains. This is all the fresh water available to us. It is not created anew but recycled, as the sun evaporates the oceans and water falls back to earth as rain and snow. What we drink is made up of ancient molecules of water that have fed rainforests, slaked the thirsts of dinosaurs and prophets, spent millennia frozen in glaciers. There is enough water in total for us all, but it is unevenly distributed. While the rich world uses more and more, many countries, particularly in Asia and Africa, suffer shortages. A third of the world’s people live in dryland regions that have access to only eight per cent of the world’s renewable water supply. For centuries humans dumped waste in the nearest watercourse and drank from it too, but this works only when the waste is small and the people are few. The pollution of waterways by toxic industrial waste and sewage is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. Modern improvements in human health are largely due to great public municipal works of sanitation that provide people with clean drinking water. Access to clean water is still one of the major distinctions between the world’s ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’. The wars of the future are likely to be over fresh water – and sooner than we think. Meanwhile, as the Earth heats up and the polar ice caps melt, the rising, warming oceans are washing inland, salinizing freshwater tables and flooding human settlements. The oceans are the engines of global weather systems: as they warm, they are not only killing whales and coral reefs, they are triggering storm surges, droughts and new unpredictable weather patterns right across the planet. New Internationalist Ship cemetery, Aralsk harbour, Kazakhstan A beached ship in what remains of Aralsk harbour in the dry bed of the Aral Sea. In 1964 the rivers supplying the sea were pumped dry to irrigate cotton crops - 'white gold' - in Central Asia. Now the water has receded by over 100 kilometres, leaving a legacy of pollution that will severely damage the health of many generations to come. Photo: Paul Howell / UNEP / Still Pictures ‘When I was a boy, the ponds and waterholes used to last the whole year through. Now they are dry and empty. When the rains came and filled the oshanas (streams), we used to take our baskets and go fishing. Now the fish baskets hang from the roof poles as ornaments.' Abraham, from the Cuvelai basin in Namibiaz Bleached coral, Maldives Coral reefs, one of the richest ecosystems, are suffering the effects of tourism, overfishing, pollution and disease. The bleaching of coral tends to be caused by rising sea temperatures - themselves the result of global warming. Some 20 per cent of the planet's coral reefs have already been destroyed, with another 20 per cent badly degraded. Photo: Pascal Kobeh / Still Pictures Flooding near the Bay of Bengal In South Asia alone, half a billion people irrigate their crops with glacier-fed river flows from the Himalayas. But as the glaciers retreat, the spring meltwater will first surge, causing floods; and then, when the glaciers are gone, stop completely. Photo: Trygve Bolstad / Panos Tree roots, French Guiana The northern coast of South America has important forests and the Orinoco-Amazon mangroves and coastal swamps. The region is an ideal resting place for migratory birds such as scarlet ibises, herons, frigatebirds and greater flamingos. Photo: Fred Hoogervorst / Panos WATER – THE FACTS • Water withdrawals from rivers and lakes for irrigation, household and industrial use have doubled in the last 40 years. • In some regions, such as the Middle East and North Africa, humans use 120% of renewable water supplies, due to the reliance on groundwater that is not recharged. • Between 1960 and 2000 the storage of water in reservoirs quadrupled, so that the amount of water now stored behind large dams is estimated to be 3-6 times the amount held by natural river channels (excluding natural lakes). • The construction of dams and other structures along rivers has affected flows in 60% of the large river systems of the world. Water removal for human uses has reduced the flow of several major rivers, including the Nile, Yellow and Colorado Rivers, to the extent that they do not always flow to the sea. • As water flows have declined, so have sediment flows, which are the source of nutrients important for the maintenance of estuaries. Worldwide, sediment delivery to estuaries has declined by roughly 30%. • Since about 1980, approximately 35% of mangroves have been lost, while 20% of the world’s coral reefs have been destroyed and a further 20% badly degraded.

susan griffin woman+nature 1978

PROLOGUE

He says that woman speaks with nature. That she hears voices from under the earth. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself apart from woman and nature.

And so it is Goldilocks who goes to the home of the three bears, Little Red Riding Hood who converses with the wolf, Dorothy who befriends a lion, Snow White who talks to the birds, Cinderella with mice as her allies, the Mermaid who is half fish, Thumbelina courted by a mole. (And when we hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits and smokes with bears and follows directions given to him by squirrels, we are surprised. We had thought only little girls spoke with animals.)

We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep; we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and sprigs of wallflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak.

But we hear.

This round cavern, motion turned back on itself, the follower becomes the followed, moon in the sky, the edge becoming the centre, what is buried emerges, light dying over the water, what is unearthed is stunning, the one we are seeking, turning with the ways of the earth, is ourselves.
This cave, the shape to which each returns, where image after image will be revealed, and painted over, painted over and revealed, until we are bone. 

Where we touch the ones who came before and see their visions, where we leave our mark, where, terrified, we give up ourselves and weep, and taken over by this darkness, are overwhelmed by what we feel: where we are pushed to the edge of existence, to the source which sounds like a wave inside us, to the path of the water which feeds us all.
The way of the water we follow, which has made this space, and hollowed the earth here, because the shape of this cave is a history. from: http://allecto.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/caves-the-eeriness-of-reading-susan-griffins-woman-and-nature/ 

LINK ~ http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.womanandnatureroar.toc.htm

a review of Griffin's woman and nature: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/ongriffin.htm

Bachelard ~ water + dreams Dillard

"Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after." Annie Dillard (An American Childhood) 

Bachelard 'to see' ~ he claims, we must go beyond our own narcissism

 Source: Photograph courtesy of Sean McPhail Lake Pedder

"The world wants to see itself"

  Water reveals, reflects

" the Lake is a large tranquil eye"

sea dragon

The night sea journey is a kind of descensus ad inferos--a descent into Hades and a journey to the land of ghosts somewhere beyond this world, beyond consciousness, hence an immersion in the unconscious.

The Psychology of the Transference CW16, par. 455 

 

link

Chiron~tapping the bones

what is submerged/suppressed becomes visible when sought. Science/Doubt/Courage Penetrated by the Fool - below the Surface, beneath the liminal Sheath, Lurking darkness, seductive Redness - cool Water.
Asklepios (Greek hero who later become a plague god, then the god of medicine and healing); Aesculapius (Roman god of healing based on the Greek Asklepios); Garuda (great golden bird with an eagle's beak and wings and human body, the Indian symbol of medicine); 

Meditrina ("Healer," a Roman goddess of wine and health who was later syncretized into the cult of Aesculapius); Eeyeekalduk (Inuit god of healing); 
the Medicine Buddhas (most prominently, Bhaishajyaguru in Tibet and Yakushi-Nyorai in Japan, who symbolize the healing and transformative quality of buddhahood}.

shaman relics

seed + dellinger + Jeffers ..." Stars burn, grass grows, men breathe ..."

"Of all the species that have existed, it is estimated that less than one in a hundred exist today. The rest are extinct. As environment changes, any species that is unable to adapt, to change, to evolve, is extinguished. All evolution takes place in this fashion In this way an oxygen starved fish, ancestor of yours and mine, commenced to colonise the land. Threat of extinction is the potter's hand that molds all the forms of life. The human species is one of millions threatened by imminent extinction through nuclear war and other environmental changes. And while it is true that the "human nature" revealed by 12,000 years of written history does not offer much hope that we can change our warlike, greedy, ignorant ways, the vastly longer fossil history assures us that we CAN change. We ARE the fish, and the myriad other death-defying feats of flexibility which a study of evolution reveals to us. A certain confidence ( in spite of our recent "humanity") is warranted. From this point of view, the threat of extinction appears as the invitation to change, to evolve. After a brief respite from the potter's hand, here we are back on the wheel again. The change that is required of us is not some new resistance to radiation, but a change in consciousness.

"... For Dogen Zenji, the others who are 'none other than myself' include mountains, rivers, and the great earth. When one thinks like a mountain, one thinks also like the black bear, so that honey dribbles down your fur as you catch the bus to work." Robert Aitken Roshi, Zen Buddhist teacher, "Gandhi, Dogen and Deep ecology", Zero Magazin 

http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/Anthropo.htm

John Seed LISTEN

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2010/04/sot_20100418.mp3

THE TREASURE

by Robinson Jeffers

Mountains, a moment's Earth-waves rising and hollowing; the

          earth too's an emphemerid; the stars -

Short-lived as grass the stars quicken in the nebula and dry in

          their summer, they spiral

Blind up space, scattered black seeds of a future; nothing

          lives long; the whole sky's

Recurrences tick the seconds of the hours of the ages of the gulf

          before birth, and the gulf

After death is like dated: to labor eighty years in a notch of

          eternity is nothing too tiresome,

Enormous repose after, enormous repose before, the flash of

          activity.

Surely you never have dreamed the incredible depths were prologue

          and epilogue merely

To the surface play in the sun, the instant of life, what is

          called life? I fancy

THAT silence is the thing, this noise a found word for it; inter

          jection, a jump of the breath at that silence;

Stars burn, grass grows, men breathe: as a man finding treasure

          says "Ah!" but the tresure's the essence;

Before the man spoke it was there, and after he has spoken he

          gathers it, inexhaustible treasure.

Robinson Jeffers, Tamar, 1920-23 Collected Poetry Vol 1 p 102

Stanford University Press 1988

http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/treasure.htm

WORD TO THE MOTHER

I once was blind, but now I see
I understand that the planet is the source of me
Literally, just like a mom gives birth to a babe
Mother Earth's given birth to everything that's been made
Word to the Mother
Source of every other
Thing, every being, in the ring of creation
And every individual's a manifestation
Of the grace innate in this place, space and time
Expressing the blessing, caressing my mind
Holy Osmosis!
That's what the cosmos is
Boomin',
Universe,
Earth,
Human.
From the beginning
The spinning Universe possessed
A spiritual interior
Inside the manifest
Blessed with a blast from the past
Free at last
As the Big Bang
Rang, sprang, sang from the start, from the void
Like a joy from the heart of the dark
And the light's
The birthright of us all
You and
I are all
The fire ball
The higher call
Inspires all with a sense of place
Let us find the divine mind
Behind every face
I've just begun to recognise the whole
soul force
Word to the Mother
Word to the Source

We've gotta get back to the Mother
We've got to get back to the Earth
We've gotta get back to the Mother
We've got to get back to the Earth

Word to the Mother
So how dare we
Have the nerve to disturb
The planetary Source
The very force that brought us alive
If She ain't in effect
There ain't no way to survive
How can we see no wisdom
From the ecosystem
This industrialized phase craze to pave highways
Yikes!
50,000 toxic sites
Nuclear power plants
Constructed with haste
Without any clue
What to do with the waste
Radiation. Seeping deep in the nation
Losing patience
With corporations
And abusers
Grinnin' like their winnin' when we'll all be the losers
Ignore natural forces
Deplete our resources
No remorse, we're off course, hold your horses.
Mother may I
Try to say why
My society lost sight of the whole
As we try and we try till we die to control
The Earth dream that can never be tamed
That can never be sold and that can never be named
What's a shame and is lame is that we thought it was clever
To dam every river ever
Never-never land is at hand unless we see and rediscover
There ain't no other
It's absurd to have to say it:
But Word to the Mother

We've gotta get back to the Mother
We've got to get back to the Earth
We've gotta get back to the Mother
We've got to get back to the Earth

The story of the Mother as I reminisce
is enough to make this brother ecofeminist
How can we limit this limitless exponential
Growth potential. Economy is secondary
Earth's essential.
The Mother exists in every wave on the sea
Every bird in the sky and every leaf on the tree.
Community, unity, you and me, family
All of us children born from 4 billion years
Of the blood sweat and tears
of the Earth
We need to
let her be
Let her grow
Set her free, let her fly, let her flow, let her go
And unfold
The way the mother intended
Activities that damage the Earth must be suspended.
Listen cause we're missin' what the Mother's advice is
She'll help us deal with ecological crisis
She's mightier
Than Aphrodite or Isis
And twice as creative, illustrative of the point
When the Earth gives birth to the Now
Still We try to milk every sacred cow
We need to chill untill we see
That no creature is my enemy
They're all kin to me
Earth is the remedy
For the malady
She's the truth at the root of reality
The elements of my bones
are left over from the swirling stardust of a supernova
Made by the Earth and the Breath of the One
Rain's in the veins in the flames of the sun's
In the heart each part contains the sum of the whole
Earth Body, Earth Spirit, Universe Soul
Word to the Mother
You gotta love her

We've gotta get back to the Mother
We've got to get back to the Earth
We've gotta get back to the Mother
We've got to get back to the Earth 

copyright Drew Dellinger, 1998
Drew King Dellinger
Promoting Justice and Cosmology through Education and Arts.
the Center of the Universe
PO Box 11347, Prescott, AZ 86304
(520) 445-6186
Drew@lankaster.com

http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/roadshow/songs.htm#WORD%20TO%20THE%20MOTHER

divining Y

Divine inspiration to solve water shortage?

By Anna Vidot

Who do you call if you want to find water on your property? A scientist? Or a water diviner?

Winston Woods from Sorell in southern Tasmania has been divining water on farms around Tasmania since the 1970s.

He says it's a gift, and he wants to use it to help farmers find water on their land.

"I just wander around, drive around with me car, me van. People invite me to have a look on their places to see if I can find water. I can feel the energy in my vehicle. So then I get out with my forky stick, do a 360 turn around, and I can usually pick it up within about 400, 500 metres of the vehicle," he said.

"I can feel it in me body, it comes through my body. I can't walk in front of a TV. The TV goes all blurry."

One of those who has faith in Winston's ability is David Downie, the deputy mayor of the Northern Midlands Council.

He says all avenues should be explored in the search for water solutions.

"Council has tried to find water within the town boundary of Ross and we've failed. Perhaps if we had've spoken to Winston before we bored, we may have come up with a better site that would have provided a better result from the boring experience," he said.

85% on 1%

85% of Australians occupying only 1% of the continent

notes

NOTES:

+ investigate North Stradbroke Island - indigenous history in terms of moving through/across water, water craft, hunting (dugong, stingray etc from boats) midden residue, serpentine meandering of water across the landscape - colour caused when sunlight hits the water at an angle

+ closest burial trees with Auntie Sally

+ indigenous beliefs relevant to 'below water surface'

+ investigate Solomon Island Tree (roots)/Boat metaphor

+ photograph glass decanters underwater (fill with water sediment) - petri dishes - evaporate, rephotograph - relics of western shipwrecks - suggest layered history

+ bones - photograph in Coombabah Lake - relics and residue - source more bones

+ embed lace in mud

+ return to fabric in the water (1980 images) above/in/below, Coochiemudlo dress images

+ Monet style 'strips' of mangrove (under the water line)

+ night shots Lorekeet Island

+ group images 1. mangroves - Romantic sublime, 2. night fish - inhabiting the liminal, 3. historical/factual re Broadwater habitation - 'use' of Broadwater, 4. metaphorical/psychological 5. Peel Island colonial relics vs natural

+ what is the oldest remaining water source/course in Australia? - Lake Mungo - does it rain?

umwelt

"Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after."

— Annie Dillard (An American Childhood) 

n(Biology, psychology)  

the environmental factors, collectively,that are capable of affecting the behaviour of an animal or individual C20: from German Umwelt environment) 

Naming Nature, by Carol Kaesuk Yoon, is a thought-provoking text that plays a new and fascinating tune on the old theme of objectivity versus subjectivity. Its subject is the history of biological systematics—the description, ordering and explanation of biological diversity.

In Yoon’s rendition, subjectivity is rooted firmly in our instinct. She explains that neuroscience, anthropology and evolutionary biology now tell us that we are born with the remnants of an instinctive perspective on the living world, which she calls the “human umwelt,” a vision “molded during our species’ days as hunter-gatherers.” This vision of a natural order is “thoroughly sensuous and wildly subjective,” Yoon says, and she maintains that the history of scientific taxonomy is really a “two-hundred-year-long battle against the human umwelt.” In modern times, we have given up this instinctive perception of the order of nature in favor of letting scientists find a more objective, evolutionary order, with the result that we are now disconnected from nature: “We are so used to someone else being in charge of the living world that we have begun not to even see the life around us.”

C K Yoon

B.S. in biology from Yale and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell

http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/on-the-origin-of-taxonomy

littoral

post meeting notes
Main Entry: ¹lit·to·ral

Pronunciation: \ˈli-tə-rəl; ˌli-tə-ˈral, -ˈräl\

Function: adjective

Etymology: Latin litoralis, from litor-, litus seashore

Date: circa 1656: of, relating to, or situated or growing on or near a shore especially of the sea

"In coastal environments and biomes, the littoral zone extends from the high water mark, which is rarely inundated, to shoreline areas that are permanently submerged. It always includes the intertidal zone and is often used to mean the same as the intertidal zone. However, the meaning of "littoral zone" can extend well beyond the intertidal zone.

The word "littoral" is used both as a noun

Ordinary high water mark

Ordinary high water mark refers to the highest level reached by a body of water that has been maintained for a sufficient period of time to leave evidence on the landscape. It may be indicated by destruction of terrestrial vegetation, the presence of marks on trees or debris deposits...

Intertidal zone

The intertidal zone is the area that is exposed to the air at low tide and underwater at high tide . This area can include many different types of habitats, including steep rocky cliffs, sandy beaches, or wetlands...

and an adjective. It derives from the Latin noun litus, litoris, meaning "shore". (The doubled 't' is a late medieval innovation and the word is sometimes seen in the more classical-looking spelling 'litoral'.)

There is no single definition. What is regarded as the full extent of the littoral zone, and the way the littoral zone is divided into subregions, varies in different contexts (lakes and rivers have their own definitions). The use of the term also varies from one part of the world to another, and between different disciplines. For example, military commanders speak of the littoral in ways that are quite different from marine biologists."

Supralittoral zone The supralittoral zone (also called the splash, spray, or supratidal zone) is the area above the spring high tide line that is regularly splashed, but not submerged by ocean water. Seawater penetrates these elevated areas only during storms with high tides.

Organisms here must cope also with exposure to air, fresh water from rain, cold, heat and predation

Predation

In ecology, predation describes a biological interaction where a predator feeds on its prey, . Predators may or may not kill their prey prior to feeding on them, but the act of predation always results in the death of the prey...

 by land animals and seabirds. At the top of this area, patches of dark lichen

LichenLichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic association of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner , usually either a green alga or cyanobacteriums can appear as crusts on rocks. Some types of periwinkles

Common Periwinkle

The common periwinkle, winkle, or Littorina littorea, is a small edible species marine gastropod with gills and an operculum in the family Littorinidae, the winkles.- Shell : Neritidae and detritus feeding Isopoda commonly inhabit the lower supralitoral.

Neritidae

Neritidae, known as the nerites, are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum...

Eulittoral zone The eulittoral zone (also called the midlittoral or mediolittoral zone) is the intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore. It extends from the spring high tide line, which is rarely inundated, to the neap low tide line, which is rarely not inundated. The wave action and turbulence of recurring tides shapes and reforms cliffs, gaps, and caves, offering a huge range of habitats for sedentary organisms. Protected rocky shorelines usually show a narrow almost homogenous eulittoral strip, often marked by the presence of barnacles. Exposed sites show a wider extension and are often divided into further zones. For more on this, see intertidal ecology

Intertidal ecology

Intertidal ecology is the study of intertidal ecosystems, where organisms live between the low and high tide lines. At low tide, the intertidal is exposed whereas at high tide, the intertidal is underwater...

Sublittoral zone The sublittoral zone, also called the neritic zone, starts immediately below the eulittoral zone. This zone is permanently covered with seawater.

In physical oceanography, the sublittoral zone refers to coastal regions with significant tidal flows and energy dissipation, including non-linear flows, internal waves, river outflows and oceanic fronts. In practice, this typically extends to the edge of the continental shelf

Continental shelf

The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain, and was part of the continent during the glacial periods, but is undersea during interglacial periods such as the current epoch by relatively shallow seas and gulfs. The continental rise is below the with depths around 200 metres.

In marine biology, the sublittoral refers to the areas where sunlight reaches the ocean floor, that is, where the water is never so deep as to take it out of the photic zone

Photic zone

The photic zone or euphotic zone is the depth of the water in a lake or ocean, that is exposed to sufficient sunlight for photosynthesis to occur...

This results in high primary production and makes the sublittoral zone the location of the majority of sea life. As in physical oceanography, this zone typically extends to the edge of the continental shelf

Continental shelf

The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain, and was part of the continent during the glacial periods, but is undersea during interglacial periods such as the current epoch by relatively shallow seas and gulfs. The continental rise is below the...

Primary production

400px|thumb|Global oceanic and terrestrial photoautotroph abundance, from September [[1997]] to August 2000. As an estimate of autotroph biomass, it is only a rough indicator of primary production potential, and not an actual estimate of it...

The benthic zone in the sublittoral is much more stable than in the intertidal zone; temperature, water pressure, and the amount of sunlight remain fairly constant. Sublittoral corals do not have to deal with as much change as intertidal corals. Corals can live in both zones, but they are more common in the sublittoral zone.

Within the sublittoral, marine biologists also identify the following:

• The infralittoral zone is the algal dominated zone to maybe five metres below the low water mark.
• The circalittoral zone is the region beyond the infralittoral, that is, below the algal zone and dominated by sessile
  
  
  Sessility (limnology)
  In limnology, sessility is that quality of an organism which rests unsupported directly on a base, either attached or unattached to a substrate. It is a characteristic of vegetation which is anchored to the benthic environment. There are two families of sessile rotifers: Flosculariidae and...
   animals such as oyster
  
  
  Oyster
  The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified.."

Adjective

In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent...

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Relating to the coastal zone between the limits of high and low tides. The littoral zone is subject to a wide range of environmental conditions, including high-energy wave action and intermittent periods of flooding and drying along with the associated fluctuations in exposure to solar radiation and extremes of temperature

"The Littoral Archaeological Project The archaeology of the coastal zone has emerged as a recognized area of research for the understanding of our cultural heritage, particularly the focus on maritime culture. Significant progress has been made over the last two decades as researchers have become increasingly aware of the dynamic nature of the littoral landscape. Attention has concentrated on issues relating to the changes in the natural environment."  

Littoral Encounters: The Shore as Cultural Interface in King Horn
Sebastian Sobecki
Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 1473-348X, Volume 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79 – 86

The thirteenth-century poem King Horn is widely regarded as the first Middle English romance. Consequently, a disproportional amount of attention has been paid to the work's genre and linguistic features, often at the expense of more complex interpretative concerns. One such aspect of the poem is the structural negotiation of the conflict between Saracens and the londisse men allied to the protagonist. This clash permeates the work and pits the land against the sea, elevating the shore to a defining role.