seeing water

visions in perception

 

Two places in the British Isles where water becomes visible in different ways. Water is shaped by its surroundings but over time shapes its surroundings at a tiny and a gigantic scale.

For digital mapping to reveal colour-textures in water click here.

 

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1. Rheidol Valley and Afon Einion

 

nature and change

Everything changes: but for human beings many things are Constant. Consider the shapes of clouds, the softness of grass, the hardness of rock. Consider water.

I well consider all that ye haue sayd,
And find that all things steadfastness doe hate
And changed be: yet being rightly wayd
They are not changed from their first estate;
But by the change ther being doe dilate:
And turning to themselves at length again,
Doe work their owne perfection so by fate:
Then ouer them Change doth not rule and raigne;
But they raigne our change, an doe their states maintain.

Nature corrects Mutabilitie, from
Sir Edmund Spenser, The Fairy Queen, VII, vii, 58
pub. 1609

 
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oak wood water

 

 

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reservoir and swallow

 

 

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wave in the west

                                            

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stream of living water

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furnace falls

 

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heaven's brink

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Above Rheidol valley, central Wales, based in a 1930's wooden hill house called Penbwlch, which means head of the pass.

 

 

 



  "it is difficult to come by the kind of artistic commitment demonstrated by Taylor, with his almost eighteenth-century desire to investigate the mysteries of nature. " Jonathan Vickery, Art & Architechture Journal review, 2012
2. Hale Fen

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On the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border, based in a pre-fabricated house built in the 1960's, one meter below sea level.

 

 

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summer ditch
 

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winter ditch

 

 

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frost and mist

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