Ablution : We explored the borderland of the estuary with its fields of pneumatophores, sediments and tidal flows, wandering into the fragility of the mangroves to perform an act of purification.

Despite 500 years of scientific progress modern industrialised societies have not managed to understand the complexities of nature nor developed feasible approaches to societal problems.
Text : Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626. Novum Organum, ‘Aphorisms concerning. The Interpretation of Nature and the Kingdom of Man’ Bacon's works are credited with developing the empirical scientific method and his writing argued for an understanding of nature through careful and skeptical observation.
Audio : Harley Rayner KNAME

Text by Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626. Novum Organum

They are such as warn the understanding of the admirable and exquisite subtilty of nature, so that it becomes roused and awakened to attention, observation, and proper inquiry; as, for instance, that a little drop of ink should be drawn out into so many letters; that gold merely gilt on its surface should be stretched to such a length of gilt wire; that a little worm, such as you may find on the skin, should possess both a spirit and a varied conformation of its parts; that a little saffron should imbue a whole tub of water with its colour; that a little musk or aroma should imbue a much greater extent of air with its perfume; that a cloud of smoke should be raised by a little incense; that such accurate differences of sound such as articulate words should be conveyed in all directions through the air, and even penetrate the pores of wood and water, that they should be, moreover, reflected, and that with such distinctness and velocity; and that there should be borne through the air, at the same time, so many images of visible objects, so many impulses of articulation, so many different perfumes, as of violet, rose, etc., besides cold and heat, and magnetic attractions; all of them, I say, at once, without any impediment from each other, as if each had its paths and peculiar passage set apart for it, without infringing against or meeting each other.

Ablution. Raewyn Turner & Brian Harris 2019. Finalist, Estuary Art and Ecology Awards, Uxbridge Gallery, Auckland

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