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An old pond

A frog jumps in

The sound of water


–Matsuo Basho

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water is never clumsy

–Max Gimblett 

Water is Never Clumsy, 2008

Sugar lift aquatint with gampi chine collé

on handmade Japanese Sekishu Hanga paper

Sheet size: 39 ½ x 24 ½ inches

Image size: 20 x 20 inches

Edition of 25

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The thirsty man longs for water.

The water calls for him to drink.

This thirst in our souls is the magnetism
of the Water:

We are It's, and It is ours.

–Rumi

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A fly wounds the water but the wound  

soon heals.

—Jane Kenyon

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Water has no taste, no color, no odor;
it cannot be defined, 
art relished while ever mysterious. 

Not necessary to life, but rather life itself. 

It fills us with a gratification that exceeds
the delight of the senses.

 

–Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

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In every glass of water we drink,
some of the water has already passed through fishes,
trees, bacteria, worms in the soil,
and many other organisms,
including people.

–Elliot A. Norse
Animal Extinctions

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