MARINA RIN

There, away from us, away from the world

 The wave follows the wave against the shore,

 And on the wave is a star, and a man, and a bird,

 And reality, and dreams, and death - wave after wave.

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 Arseny Tarkovsky

 Aqua.  Water and its ontological disclosure in the elements generates in a person a difficultly formulated counter impulse and a response, not always predictable reaction.  This reaction is due to our involvement in its nature, its material substance, its mobility and transformation.  All of this composes a complex metaphor, which also absorbs Munk's "cry" of existential fear and admiration at the same time.

 Water is one of the main primary elements of the universe.

The element of water is the element of an ambivalent gesture that creates a magnificent shell and erases antediluvian civilizations from the face of the earth, turning them into an archaic rudiment that remains in the memory of water, like foamed craquelure on the surface of a dying storm.

The element of water is a prototype of entropy, which enthralls with its call to violate the imaginary constants of the shimmering surface, go beyond the horizon, go to the depths and not return to the stones of the salutary firmament that once divided the sea and land.

 The element of water is always a message to humanity.  This is a crypto text, revealed in the contemplation of the inviting peace of the azure breeze and in the horror of plunging into the abyss of a deadly wave.

 Water is a book of special content.  The semantics of its figurative series is extraordinary in its sacred content, in the secrets of its presence in the inner currents of civilization, and in the foaming waters of Antiquity, and in the waters of the Red Sea that parted, breaking the "nature of rank", and in the streams of Jordan frozen in horror.

Text :  Alexander Petrovichev