searchingtoseethese watery things
My life is going through a lot of changes at the moment. These are changes which I have instigated. Things are shifting. It is exciting, but extremely unsettling, and there are times when I question my motives for stirring up the waters. I question why I am constantly compelled to confront what is real and safe and solid. Sometimes it helps me to express these feelings with my images and sometimes I write words too, which I cannot call as substantial as poetry or prose, but…. well, they are just something.
***
In these moments, when the frayed ends of a tightly wound skein begin to unravel. When the warm, solid earth beneath my feet seems to shift. When I look up, and even the clear blue sky wavers and shimmers, teasing like a mirage in the temperate desert heat. Watery things are playful things; beguiling and dissembling. They steal the light and scatter it joyfully like pebbles, skimming this way and that. Dodging and darting here and there.
Impossible to gather in my arms.
Every time I look, things are different… as if my eyes are shifting. A pair of aqueous orbs.
Every time, it is new.
Don’t confess your secrets to those watery things. They will suck them in greedily and and then spit them out like polished cherry stones.
© images and words by Emily Hughes, 2015
searchingtosee 
very much enjoyed
thank you!
Lovely words and images. I’m going through so many changes at the moment and this resonated with me 🙂
Thanks! Glad to hear it has resonated with you also and I hope your change is good 🙂
beautiful imagery
thanks Maureen!
Such expressive words and images Emily. A very special ‘just something’. I have really enjoyed feeling the changes that you are going through. Change is thrilling but not always comfortable is it?
thank you Jane! It’s true it can be uncomfortable, but in the end it’s better than standing still, I think
Speechless, merely content to scroll up and down up and down, falling into these beautiful images.
wow thank you so much! I’m really glad you enjoyed them Patti
Well said, well shown–enjoyed it all.
thanks Cynthia!
lovely images. Your words are like a secret you share, beautiful !
These are absolutely wonderful. Good luck with your changes, Emily.
thanks Richard 🙂
Just how some changes can feel I think – searching for form, looking for clues, changing your shape to fit a new form, hoping the water will clear. I feel drawn to the in-betweens as much as I’m frightened by them I think – anything is possible..great images Emily!
Hi Cath, and thanks! They suit my mood at the moment, I guess! Hope all is well with you x
wonderful Emily
Gorgeous images paired so nicely to the words.
thanks Chris!
Pingback: oh, she dreams in gold | searchingtosee