...the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

I shot this video at the Oregon Zoo's polar bear area in late September 2008 during a sudden, splashy, heavy summer downpour. I'll save the clip of the polar bears for another post, but trust me when I say that they appeared to hate rain.

(O) Water always finds water (a slippery tale)

She asked her a few questions
Shuffled the cards
Laid out the deck before her
“Pick a few won’t you?”
“Ah yes,” she said, “was he a water sign?”
“Yes” was her reply
“And you?”
“Yes, water too”

“Ah, now I see …
When water meets water, you know;
It just flows,
Flows into one another
No seams, no edges, smooth without ridges
But when water meets fire
Well that’s a whole different desire
Water get heated up by fire
But water can put fire out”
With that, she could agree and had no doubt

“What you need” she said, “is a good earth sign”
“Get away from all this water and fire,
Too much drowning, too much heat
What you need is some earth for you to meet”

So the mermaid shimmied up onto the rocks
Flipping her pearlescent tail on the shore
And twinkled her pretty shells
But the sea wanted her more……….

--Unknown Girl

(Note: author of poem is listed as "Unknown Girl" in online publication, but some comments are addressed to the author, calling her "Helen." Here is her bio, etc.)

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

--Rem Koolhaas
Dutch architect

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