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As a shadow tells of form, it is largely water's impacts that let us describe it as a thing. Above, Bruce Medhurst records velocities, sampling a hundred point grid along the hundred-fifty meter study reach. This array of measurements, combined with depth and roughness, begins to translate a flowing stream into stable description.
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The sense of a world dreamt into being preoccupied me as we crisscrossed gravelly streambeds taking measurements. It was as if disorientation by something inscrutable, formless and necessary was sinking into and through understanding. I thought of psychoanalytic process, of the rituals, art and architecture that embody relationships with ungraspable things. Could this be what ecologists do turning liquid processes into grids of numbers?
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One doesn't appreciate the abundances of nature when it comes as a hoard of mosquitoes, but pencil graphite glinting in the sun certainly counts as superlative.
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