Take a sample of every body of water you visit. Put them in little
glass bottles and label them with the day and place. It could be an
ocean or a puddle — what matters is that that unique collection of
pollution, purity, bacteria, algae, and such is a little time capsule
back to that moment in time. Sometimes, if there is no water
available, run a tap and label that bottle “so-and-so’s tap”. I
recently found an old bottle of mine labeled “Grandmum’s house” — from
before she moved in with my aunt, from before she died… This is all I
have of her house and I now keep it next to my samples from Loch Ness and
the Atlantic Ocean.
Emily Wing
New York, NY
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Beautiful.
that is a really cool idea!
i did something like that when i went to california for the first time (it was my first time seeing the ocean!) i bought differnt size glass jars and filled them with sand, shells, and water from each beach i visited!
Relevant to this project is the work of Austalian artist Sue Sazon “the tears i cried for you” (1999).
The work is 35 glass phials in which she has collected human tears. The phials are held up by science-lab type aluminium stands and are each labeled with a brief explanation of the cause of these tears- from the grief of losing a loved one, to the tears shed when cutting an onion. Fascinating art work.