Confluence of space, place and ecology
As a young boy I grew to love the coast of New South Wales in Australia, spending much of my life enamoured by its charms. Numerous encounters with the sea have given shape to the intricacy of my inner coastline, comprised of a range of lived experiences, values and perspectives. To recollect them is to appreciate their worth: my earliest memory is steeped in oceanic consciousness etched in my being with vivid detail. Something strange and yet wonderful happened when I fell overboard as a toddler, while my Grandfather's boat the Oceanus refuelled at the wharf at Church Point, in Pittwater, at the northern reaches of Sydney. I plunged into the water through what seemed to be a silvery shoot, before being suspended in animation underwater-there I glimpsed astonishing beauty while seized in profound wonder, immersed in the ambience of aquatic splendour. I took note with complete clarity and vividly recall tiny silver bubbles rising to the surface, merging with the shimmering backlit meniscus, the crystal-glass surface of an undulating seal upon the surrounding iridescent blue. This is the self-same oxygen, water-tension and blue ontology I will rely on throughout this thesis. For within the ambit of their meaning, the ocean and water remain mystical and alluring, intrinsic to the formulation and sustenance of the life-worlding of us all.
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