Abstract
I am sitting by a window at a small desk looking over our garden . I am in our shack of a house, a walk from the Southern Ocean’s Bass Strait, and the tidal estuarine embayment of Western Port, Victoria, Australia. In the last four years, I have spent time with practicing artists who create artworks of waterways, on waterways and with waterways while I critically engage with singing this coastal confluence of rivers, creeks, bay and ocean into health. I am a river her self, washing down a gully, and disrupting banks. Water body, I am washing over rocks. A little of me is left behind and a little of them is drawn into me along the way. I am part of the planet. I am the planet.
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Notes
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This painting, ‘Collonaides rock II’ (acrylic on paper, 2013), is by Mikala Peters and published with permission.
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Bodyplaceblogposts are largely published without editing. See ‘A Note’ section for more information.
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Tobey Henry of Banyule City Council and Melanie Smith of Melbourne Water, and I were part of a research project into the role of art in Waterwatch education; I worked with Angela Foley during my first instance of investigating art-making in environmental education programs when we, at Merri Creek Management Committee (MCMC), used photography in Waterwatch sessions with primary-aged children. This program element was extended at Werribee Plains Waterwatch.
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The Space, Place, Body research group is made up of doctoral students supervised by Margaret Somerville.
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This painting, Western Port unknown i (oil on canvas, ~2011), by Robyn Carter, is published with permission.
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These photographs and corresponding paintings, ‘Collonaides (I and II)’ are created by Mikala Peters (acrylic on paper, 2013), and published with permission.
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The artworks in this blogpost are of ‘everyday life with edith’ (photographs, 2013), Sarah Crinall.
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Also referred to as resources in this study.
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Crinall, S. (2019). Introduction, Water Body, I Am. In: Sustaining Childhood Natures. Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3007-0_1
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