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Robin Payes's avatar

Inspiring, Julia. I have been musing on elemental connections between water and light--both life giving and life-sustaining. Breathing us in to life on this planet and, when our bodies can bear no more, spiriting us away.

Even so, light and water are everywhere in the cosmos, we are learning, sometimes not in ways we can detect with the human eye, so we rely on tools like the James Webb Space Telescope that can refract spectral light our eyes are not designed to see in ways we can transform it into seeing for our eyes.

And apparently there is a water spectrum these space probes are designed to detect as well-- another light refraction. It truly is a miracle.

Thanks you for showing us new ways of playing with these ideas and honoring life and the Source of Life!

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Julia Adzuki's avatar

Wow Robin! Thank you for weaving light and space through this thread.

There is such spectral poetry in what you write, the detection of water spectrums in space through light refraction. Brought together with an embodied sense it sets the boundaries of comprehension quivering.

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Robin Payes's avatar

Yes--"Brought together with an embodied sense if sets the boundaries of comprehension quivering."

Water and light rippling out from the embodied to the ethereal.

Stellar languaging, Julia. Or, shall I say, INTERSTELLAR!

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Julie Snider's avatar

Julia, your dedication to water, to the elemental truth of water, to our watery selves—so gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your photos, words, and ethics with us. Water is the most precious, yet taken-for-granted, resource we share.

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Julia Adzuki's avatar

~Water is the most precious, yet taken-for-granted, resource we share~

So well said Julie. It is a puzzle how to change this relation, to bring awareness to our daily interactions with water. To connect what comes out of the tap to where it comes from and where it goes to.

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Jenny Belcher's avatar

Your creativity, sensibility and the works of your hands never ceases to amaze me… so beautiful, so inspiring, so much fun…so much love and pride😘

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Julia Adzuki's avatar

Thanks Mum, you are the best fan a daughter and artist could wish for❤️

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Suzanne Oommen's avatar

I find this delightful and playful and beautiful!

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Julia Adzuki's avatar

So glad to hear Suzanne! There is some magic the depth we can reach with a lightness of touch through play.

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Lisa Flack's avatar

Dearest water nymphs, such a beautiful remembering. ❤️

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Q Walhof's avatar

Thank you Julia, a beautiful flow and ritual. Also love this found me now, have been looking for some inspiration... on a full moon night, to wade into the river until fully under (dissolve) and slowly emerge without separation, if only for a moment.

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