perpetual
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
The power of water is the power of blood, flood and drought. Water keeps it real, keeps us real. Forgetting this, we turn the earth into a toxic dump. Remembering this, we unfurl the future as perpetual possibility.
Water is also the strength of subtlety, quietly making its way through your body. perpetual is both a gift and a warning from water. Through drawings and graphic essays by artist Cindy Mochizuki and writer Rita Wong, the book visits some key sites where people have sabotaged themselves by desecrating water: the Pacific Ocean, the tar sands leaking into the Athabasca River, the historical salmon streams buried in sewers under Vancouver’s streets, pressing to be daylighted...
perpetual draws strength from the rivers that still flow wild, like the Fraser River, and from friendships made along the way in journeys with and for water. The book is a response to Dorothy Christian’s call to protect sacred waters. Humble and holy, water shows us a way to make peace and ethics, if we have the heart and spirit to learn.
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Written by Wong and fully illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki, this book follows the course set by Wong in her previous collection, Undercurrent Both books use found poetry, deeply personal recollections, and visual narrative to explore themes of cultural and geological responsibility to the natural environment and to humankind as well as ecological recovery, First Nations land and cultural rights, reclamation of environmental watersheds, and connection with nature. Mochizuki's art is a perfect complement to Wong's writing: fluid, captivating, and forming the book's liquid backbone, interspersed with photography that grounds the narrative most effectively in situ. And like Undercurrent this book is conversant with its subject matter in both personal and academic terms, providing excellent bibliographic material to aid further reading. Wong and Mochizuki's ability to interweave their art and text in deceptively simple style is the book's strongest aspect. The depths here are decidedly worthy of exploration, making this another highly recommended title in Wong's oeuvre and a reason for her readers to hope for further collaborations with Mochizuki.
