Amphibious Ancestor
For the present water is locked up in our polar ice caps, is underground, or in vapor and in all of us.
Paul Dew presents an analogy of life balance overwhelmed and flooded. And of finding a freeness within a return to the depths.
Such that as if we were once fish... or once a type of hairless swimming ape.... we were in our element.
Studies in human evolution have long suggested a very distant ancestor was aquatic... and we know that 50-75% of our own body mass even consists of water. Here the underwater depths of a pool are an imagined environment in which we are at home... with our elongated limbs, breath controlling ability, fat layers, hairlessness and bathing behaviour... adapting to life In water again is not so far reaching.
It is amazing to see how natural competitive swimmers appear in the water.
71% of this planet's surface is covered in water and through global warming, that coverage is set to increase... for the present water is locked up in our polar ice caps, is underground, or in vapor and in all of us. But as polar ice caps melt, perhaps our future is of a watery life once more.
Such that as if we were once fish... or once a type of hairless swimming ape.... we were in our element.
Studies in human evolution have long suggested a very distant ancestor was aquatic... and we know that 50-75% of our own body mass even consists of water. Here the underwater depths of a pool are an imagined environment in which we are at home... with our elongated limbs, breath controlling ability, fat layers, hairlessness and bathing behaviour... adapting to life In water again is not so far reaching.
It is amazing to see how natural competitive swimmers appear in the water.
71% of this planet's surface is covered in water and through global warming, that coverage is set to increase... for the present water is locked up in our polar ice caps, is underground, or in vapor and in all of us. But as polar ice caps melt, perhaps our future is of a watery life once more.
Paul Dew Art Off The Kerb Galley, June 2017
