Turbulent water [series]
This photographic series was inspired by a personal encounter with a river. I use the event as a coexistential trigger for thinking into and contemplating moments of turbulence and unsettling, but with intimate geological attachments – informed by geophilosophical (Clark 2011) and eco-feminist (Plumwood 2012) thinking. Encounters beyond our ability to control, and which threaten our very being, can deeply unsettle our sense of the world and our own agency, ultimately prompting re-evaluation of ourselves and our maps of the world. Here, it constituted an experiment in interrogating individual bodily and ontic unsettling in light of Anthropocene dwelling. Returning to memories of the event, and to the location itself, allowed me to reflect on feelings of unease and disorientation; to be drawn down ‘strange pathways’ of thought and contemplating ‘nature’ as a force to be reckoned with (Clark 2005).