Time to go

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

― Rachel Carson

Cley Flora I and II

For me, the European Eel represents resilience: its tenacity in surviving the Ice Age, its incredible life span and its spectacular navigational skills all resonating with this. Resilience is symbolically represented by a helix, or a spiral - a form echoing an eel’s shape. 

The sense of transience, journeying, life cycles, an incredible interrelated human and eel history that is barely remembered - all jostling to be expressed in different ways harnessing natural pigments and site specific materials.

Let’s entwine our history once again with the European eel, drawing on its resilience to work creatively, compassionately for its survival and flourishing, and our own.

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The Four Stages of Resilience