for Body – Becoming – Landscape, ArtEZ MA Fashion Strategy, 23 February 2021

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water.

Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.

Tao te Ching, translation by Stephen Mitchell 

Oceans

Rivers

Streams

Lakes

Marshes

Mist

Clouds

Rain

Frost

Snow 

Ice

Water in the body…

Joints – synovial fluid for lubrication and shock absorption
Bones – viscous citrate-water fluid between crystals for flexibility and shock absorption
Veins, Arteries, Capillaries and Heart – blood to distribute nutrients and remove waste (5 liters)
Between the Cells – interstitial fluid to regulate nutrients-waste transport (11 liters)
Between the Organs – periorgan fluid to lubricate and moisten the surface of viscera
Lungs – pleural fluid to reduce friction during respiration
Heart – serous fluid, to eliminate friction during heartbeats
Skull and Spinal Cord – cranio-sacral fluid to clean the nervous system and protect the tissue layers
Lymphatic system – lymphatic fluid to regulate the immune system, fluid balance, absorption of nutrients (5 liters)

Raging

Flooding

Flowing 

Burbling

Still

Stagnant

The state of FLOW

being completely immersed in the activity
“the optimal state of inner experience”

Listening

to the sound of

rain

Be like water making its way through cracks. 

Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, 

and you shall find a way around or through it. 

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. 

Empty your mind, be formless. 

Shapeless, like water. 

If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. 

You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. 

You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. 

Now, water can flow or it can crash. 

Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee