- This river has a voice
- This river has been misnamed[i]
- This river is an abstraction
- This river swirls, chokes and flows
- This river drowns people[ii]
- This river shines with possibilities
- This river flows in Gumbaynggirr time
- This river like any river refutes the concept of silence
- This river like any river welcomes contributions
Painting by Wyn - This river like any river has little control on our contributions
Bushfires - This river is virtual – and concrete when falling from a 100 metres
- This river copes with the holidays
- This river may change direction but never its way
- This river never sleeps aware of exploitation and overconsumption
- This river presses stingray moulds along its flanks
- This river offers blue armies of solder crabs room for manoeuvres
- This river opens its banks to endangered birds
- This river reacts to changing light conditions
- This river refuses to be boundary
- This river is eroding the talons of Valla Nature Reserve
- This river is yin, rises and falls with the tides
- This river is yang, sometimes gripping me in its current
Wyn swimming against the current - This river can be thought of as an ars poetica
- This river has values that can’t be calculated
- This river is a companion at first light when no other humans are around[iii]
- This river has no concept of canals, reservoirs, irrigation or damnation [iv]
- This river is to hand
- This river needs rain
- This river needs care
- This river has a voice – listen
[i] The river is known as Deep Creek. Miilba is the Gumbaynggirr name.
[ii] Yesterday, a young man was pulled from the sea, almost died.
[iii] My ongoing project Eos, first light revels in opportunities to be intimate with natural fundamentals, without the usual noise from contemporary daily life.
[iv] The Miilba estuary is an ICOLL (Intermittently Closed and Open Lakes and Lagoon). A sand bar barricaded the river in. Humans do not intervene unless the water level rises too high (risking flooding) or the quality deteriorates dangerously. Opening a river can result in a rapid release of water resulting in oxygen depletion and fish kills. The Council called in a bulldozer to open up a channel; sometimes we forced to manage nature. Usually because of our interference.
