One for the poets, artists, dabblers and ponderers among you (all those watery allusions). We visited the Tone above Clatworthy Reservoir with Fire River Poet Graeme Ryan and we jumped straight in to comparing our artistic processes and philosophies. How poets and artists reach out towards the living world or look to their inner living world, and how these connect. What and where is consciousness? How does interspecies communication take place? Do we believe in a creator? Coleridge’s concept of the divinely inspired imagination, which echoes the processes that formed the planet. Life at the quantum level. Poetry as healing, in the context of a damaged world.
What does this all have to do with rivers you ask? Well, Graeme is very expressive and eloquent (did we mention he was a poet?) about rivers, and inspired by them. He suggests a river is an incredibly dynamic being that is going through metamorphosis all the time. “Where we are caught up in our in our own individual identities and bags of skin, a river is just profligate.” That idea has really stayed with us.
