This week, guest Veda Austin invites us to consider and grow closer to water – as both a preciously vital and often overlooked life source. Veda’s work researching and making art with water has allowed her an intimate look into water’s role on Earth and within our lives.
Water is our companion, and more than just companion, it is what makes us. We are continually obliged to water, and it to us, as we are in an interdependent relationship with it. Veda calls us to investigate our liquid selves – the tears and sweat that make us human, the rituals of baptism and bathing that connect us to that which lies beyond. As Veda states, water is always in search of itself. How might understanding water begin to help us in our search for ourselves?
Ayana and Veda walk between magical and corporeal realms. How does connection with water deepen our connection to the world as a whole? How does water and its cyclic nature invite us into interdependence and reciprocity? Veda reminds us that we are a “fluid, intelligent body of water, minerals, salts and consciousness.” Water provides the tides of our lives. Reverence for water should inspire a reverence for ourselves.
“Water is not a resource. It is source.”