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touching the void

            She died. More than once, as it happens. Her first death was on the operating table. They got her back, sort of, and only after cellular death had kicked in. One thing was clear to her — there was nothing on the other side of life. Nobody was waiting for her; nothing.

Here it's a bit like that. Outside of the Badu Mangrove there is hustle and bustle. There's a breeze, noisy sounds of the city coming and going, direction makes sense; it's all push and shove. Inside, and all of that stops. Everything changes. People, places — all gone. There's life — less of it visible — and death. It's all tangible in a different and wonderful way.

There's a boardwalk keeping me out of the mud and a mesmerising emptiness which is equally full. This is how I imagine tantra before  it was irrevocably compounded with a physical act. This is a living, breathing organism. Twice a day these Grey Mangroves, Avicennia marina, will bathe in the tide; twice a day it will drain back into the river. I'm inside the lungs and kidneys of a city. Inside, here in the silence and gloom all looks like death and decay. Instead it is birth; breathe and repeat — timeless. Here there is truth; outside is where the weird stuff happens. Outside there was before Parramatta. It rose and fell, rose and fell, rose again, is rising again and will fall; like the tide. 

This mangrove doesn't care. Unmolested it will live until it lives no more in the warp and weft of Nature. Outside is frantic, falsehood and fantasy, noisy; pointlessly arguing with time. At this moment, we are inside-out. Here is life; out there is the void.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Liberty Grove (show map)

Taken on: March 17, 2024

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Camera: HMD Global Nokia 9, f/1.8, 1/50 sec, 27mm, ISO 265 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	HMD Global Nokia 9
Aperture:	f/1.8
Exposure Time:	0.02 sec (1/50)
Focal Length:	27mm
ISO:	265
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	PaintShop Pro 25.00
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