fresh water
Unlike the more kinetic atmospheres of coastal beaches and swimming pools, the relative stillness of fresh water offers a respite from the demands of modern life. Here I find women and men, children and adults, of many nationalities, immersed in a sole body of water. It is a social, racial, and economic equalizer. At first I was drawn by the placid surface where humid air meets deep dark water. Where life teems in the shadow of a cove. What I have since discovered is the magnetism of these places - such that assembles a human community participating in an ageless form of personal relief and collective connection.