Confluence

“Find the current follow the flow and the river’s voices say and sing what I cannot comprehend, and each time I lean my mind out to listen they retreat in the measure I approach them, so instead I start to scrawl the pages you are reading here and the paper glistens with river-mist until I’m just jotting words in ink that’s blotting in curls as phrases whirl into the notebook from a source vastly greater than the sphere of my skull and I find tears in my eyes that I did not put there but the river did - it may involve a great reach outward of mind and imagination, for those few seconds beckoned on and shivered by that hourglass shaped and silvered force that is a mouth and has a tongue and utters after miles and minutes and years on the flow and in it, I am rivered.”- Robert Macfarlane  This painting is inspired by the book Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane and maps of the development stages of the Mississippi River completed by Harold Fisk in 1944 60 by 36” Acrylic on Stretched C