Me: I have reason to believe that infinity and the roaring of the seas belong together.
The Sea: So what?
Me: But it’s just great!
The Sea: Then just listen to how I go roaring through you!
71% of the Earth is covered by water, the life-giving element that cleanses, quenches thirst, and yet also has another, more ugly face: one that is engulfing, destructive and cold. The unfathomable deepness of the ocean is a dark force. The sea forms a natural boundary around the human habitat. In the ancient world humanity declared the sea a sphere attributed to the gods in an attempt to grasp the unpredictability of the sea and the dangers it concealed. It is also expressed by a haiku: The sea a mirror. / Once again double presence / For them up there!
AR
Image: Hiroshi Sugimoto, North Atlantic Ocean, Cliffs of Mother I, 1989
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