MARKING TIME WITH(IN) THE WATER | ST MARYS RIVERWORKSHOP SYNOPSIS/EXCERPT
24th May, 2024 | 12-3pm at Bellevue Park, meet at the covered pavilion No registration
Marking Time With(in) the Water is an ongoing, participatory workshop promoting collective engagement with varied bodies of water and related shoreline spaces. In this version, participants will be invited to create camera-less photographic prints exposed and developed by the existing light of the sun over a prolonged moment along the banks of what is currently known as the St. Marys River. Prints will be created by placing objects and materials in direct contact with photosensitized gelatin silver paper (standard darkroom paper). This method allows for slow, repeated observation resulting in photo-based visuals mapping the characteristics of vegetation, sediment, rocks, and wood debris comprising important habitat elements for fish and other aquatic species. Ideally, each print will directly interact with the river itself by being fully or partially submerged within its waters during exposure. This direct, durational process emphasizes the deep time embedded within land and water continually re-shaped by disturbances, both observable and invisible. Working together, perhaps we might begin to assemble a collection of prints visualizing our interconnected watersheds and the many living beings supported within and throughout as integral members of both local and global communities in perpetual states of transition.