7 QiHuaSanPan 气化三盤

Qi Transforms the Three Layers

"There's two big influences in my work: the sea and the river. Both water. You would think that time would be more compatible with the tide. Time and tide, this daily up and down. But somehow, I think there's a lot to be learned about time by the river."

-- Andy Goldsworthy, "Rivers and Tides"

This is the first movement I had real trouble with understanding from the text.

https://twitter.com/bonkydog/status/1524785350924566529?s=20

Really needed the video to get this one at all. Needed to see how this movement feels.

For me, in my current practice, this movement feels like a river, how it meanders over the course of seasons, how its banks define its movement, but its movement changes its banks.

How water rains down and soaks through the soil, merging with itself, a confluence, an inexorable flow toward the sea.

Sometimes rushing, sometimes, languid, but the power is always there, the power to submerge, to erode, to dissolve, to wash away barriers, to leak through any crack

and broaden it

Practice feels like this, how it flows through us with repetition, warming in morning, cooling at night. It changes us, and is itself changed. Each day is like a turn in a river, the S curve of time.

"So if I had to find something that would join the year together, it would be something like the river. The river is a river of stone, a river of animals, a river of the wind, a river of the water, a river of many things. A river is not dependent on water. We're talking about the flow. And the river of growth that flows through the trees and the land."

-- Andy Goldsworthy, "Rivers and Tides"

Everything seeming separate flows to the sea.