8 and 9 May 2016
Miami Beach and Jacksonville, FL
In the past, whenever I have looked at water, it’s always been down at or into or out at it.
Even when I peered into its depths it was – without thinking – from a mammalian land-based perspective with automatic and unconscious hierarchical assumptions.
I was here on land and the water was down there and we were unequivocally separate.
Even when I swam it was, until recently, eyes wide shut without goggles; a clear separation blindly.
I took my chances for those moments of swim and didn’t ever know what was going on around or below me.
Now when I look at water, my first automatic thought is not from up top – even if I am up top – but from my shoulders. #diver
What is it like inside there? What’s going on? What would it be like for my body to be inside there right now?
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South Pointe Pier inside Government Cut/South Beach/Miami Beach. © J. Manos
Um maybe not the muddy water of the St. John’s River in downtown Jacksonville. But still it was my first thought — what was it like in there? © J. Manos
St. John’s River/Jacksonville, FL © J. Manos
Downtown Miami skyline in the distance behind Government Cut/South Pointe Pier, Miami Beach.
© J. Manos
© J. Manos