Niigaani-gichigami
Water as being, being a transparent perceptive medium that allows one to see inside or outside; it is a translucent vessel for the imagination.
This project was developed in Canada, on Lake Ontario.
After the storm, calm comes.
The images of matter as Gaston Bachelard calls the images of the poetics of imagination in the poetics of space.
"Water, being subtle
You host the look
you transform and move agile
you solidify the waves
you make time visible
medium translucent
to drop
and to start again"
Year: 2023
Niigaani-gichigami is the name that receives
lake ontario in Ojibwe language - Anishinaabemowin, ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ
The native Canadian Ojibway people have a strong relationship with water
as spirit.
Finding myself on this sacred land, I wanted to pay homage to the spirit of water.
In Niigaani-gichigami, I approached the blizzard,
and I lived his strength.
The next day calm came and the shapes of the spirit were visible
in the frozen medium
on the rocks.
There the ethereal and the tangible kissed
Remembering the current of the vital flow.
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After the storm, calm comes.
