Transdisciplinarity Knowing and Being
摘要
These photographs in Figs. 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 were taken in the waters of Gordon’s Bay, part of the sandstone rock cliff formations where land and ocean meet on the lands of the Bidjigal and Gadigal clans in Sydney, Australia. I began swimming in these waters in 1993 as part of an end-of-week ritual, while building my earth house. They have continued to feel cleansing, a place of somatic return, dissolution, and reformation. Selections from H2+O2 (a body of photographic artworks) open this chapter. The works signal the soma and practice of breathing with life. I swim daily and have done for 40 years. I love being in and moving through water. Being immersed is like returning to an expansive, wordless home, where I metabolise experience and reflect in ways that escape language. Swimming brings me into contact with my breathing body; it amplifies a sense of vastness and vulnerability that connects and dissipates in a moment. Over time, this practice has cultivated a kind of mind-in-life: attuned, fluid, and somatically intelligent.