SCUBA
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| FLOATING |
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| COLLECTING |
I had a recurring dream as a child that I was going around my home town at night floating horizontally a couple of feet above the pavement . When I took up scuba diving nearly 40 years later it was exactly this sensation . I dont know why I like it so much and i dont know why i like the cold dark waters of the Shannon so much . I have dived with sharks on coral reefs but I prefer the river . I have talked to other divers , risk and danger are certainly important , all divers like this , I personally like finding things and the associated history , this comes back to my collecting thing.Other divers are interested in the gear, the boats , the fish or whatever but I think all these things are peripheral , central to the appeal of being underwater is the sensuality or the lack of this . you are cosseted in a womb like environment , sight sound and even the sense of touch are all severely compromised . It is a private world, you cant talk and no one can talk to you. Although potentially dangerous you feel secure no one can get at you down there .
Diving , therefore , supplies 2 things important to me, sanctuary and the opportunity to collect old stuff .These are also 2 things I am dealing with in my project.
The river can also be quite creepy , its always night down there and you never know whats around the next boulder. I like this I love a touch of the Gothic.
I would like to express the psychological experience of diving as art ,but cant find a way as yet. Photos only give a fraction of the experience and paintings I have done look jokey.I think its going to have to be something involving several senses.
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| COLLECTING |
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| DARK AND CREEPY |
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| PAINTINGS LOOK A BIT JOKEY |
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| EXPERIMENTING IN MY POOL |
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