(Cool picture from Shelagh Stephenson's play, The Memory of Water)
-CHANGE
-Exploring the relationships between memory and the natural world
-Separation, drowing, reflective
-Not being able to put words to my feelings; trying to speak or breathe through water
Water has dual meanings: Life giving/ renewal/ rebirth vs. unknown/ mysteriou/ dangerous
-We can drown or be trapped in our memories
-PANIC; constant worry about losing something
-Underwater is a different, foreign world
-Inability to verbalize a feeling, desire or memory; something that must be done through a visual image
-Duality of memory: How beautiful and vivid they are; so much so that we may become too engrossed, too caught up in a time that has passed and that can never be recreated or revived.
-Trying to relive an experience is futile
-So preoccupied with a time that has passed that we lose sense of the present
-Recalling these memories is difficult, so hard to verbalize, to put into more of a concrete form than what is laying dormant in the back of my mind
-Trying to remember but not be consumed by an intellectual and physical relationship not only with an individual but with a landscape and a way of life as well.
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