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had no artistic inspiration at all. I contribution around, and looking at
wasn’t even inspired to take the healing the seawater provides
pictures. I guess it’s true when they from a scientific perspective.
say, its hard to get inspiration when Looking at these people who were
you are in a shitty place. But performing these rituals, I got
nonetheless, it got me thinking reminded of my favourite song by
about another process we take Zahara called “Away,” where in her
lightly, which is flushing the toilet. opening lines she says, “I travel the
Another highlight for me was the seas and waters; Trying to find my
beach clean-up, where we collected redemption song.” This made me
piles and piles of rubbish. While look at water as a healing place. But
doing that, we spotted different then I quickly got reminded of my
groups of people performing two favourite songs by Florence and
spiritual rituals by the seashore. We the Machine, one entitled “What
spotted around four different the water gave me.” In the lyrics,
groups of people doing this. It got she is inspired by the way Virginia
me thinking about what the water Woolf died in the water. And the
and the ocean, the sea, means for second song is “Never let me go,”
African spirituality. How do people where she finds peace in dying
draw healing from the water? And underwater. These songs made me
how does polluted water affect or look at water as a dying place. So,
impact this? These are some of the my contribution will also explore
questions I want to centre my these multiple facets of water.
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