Water

Difference

Lindsay — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:00:54 +0200

5pm

Lindsay — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:54:05 +0200

A Slice of Fruit

Lindsay — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:59:23 +0200

Ian the writer, poet, artist, elven dancer and general singing philosopher of the Western Isles and Dawn, his shipmate and fellow creative being. Every one has their own way of distilling the processes of work and this is theirs; navigating large pieces of fruit over water, between points of land, by the strength of the breeze.

Bill's Ferry from Tanera Mor

Lindsay — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:14:11 +0200

Ewan on the Boston Sterling mast

Lindsay — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:27:27 +0200

Bath

Lindsay — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:12:41 +0200

Subverting the domestic. The bath filling up.

Lungs

Lindsay — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:55:30 +0200

Breathing underwater.

Aqualung

Lindsay — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:37:41 +0100

Mermaids tale

Lindsay — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:46:10 +0100

This and subsequent footage, images and audio are part of an ongoing investigation into my relationship with the water and will form part of my final thesis, the chapters of which I will upload shortly. However, like trying to sit on a chair and set a table, talking is equally as hard as our normal noise making capacity involves the use of air, none of which is available under the water. This left me trying to swim whilst breathing and talking through a tube at the same time; every time I did this my face mask got a little fuller with very salty water.

The footage was filmed on my little digital camera, therefore is not very high quality. I have re-loaded the previous Day Pool footage in a better format so will also be a little clearer. These video clips may be re-done in the future when I can access a better camera and also perhaps isolating these ideas more, like the mask filling up or an image of just my mouth trying to breath and talk, emphasising the difference and difficulty of everyday tasks that we take for granted.

First Fins

Lindsay — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:46:13 +0100

Today I picked up my first fins from Mark at the Dive Bunker in Burntisland, Fife. Today was also one of those days when I felt that I’d been shown a key to a door, a chance conversation with someone that brought together a few areas of thought; thoughts which were also presented with an opportunity to be transplanted onto something concrete for a structured course of investigation.

On the sea-bed of the Firth of Forth lies a wreck called HMS Saucy. This war-time tug sunk after it hit a mine, killing 26 crew members, many of whom were related. According to Mark, a couple of his dive regulars have felt strange presences under the water, as if someone was trying to hold them down. Sightings of other divers and torch light beams have also been reported when there are no other divers in the water at that time.

I was telling him of my investigations into electromagnetism, and of Usman Haque, who studied varying perceptions regarding fluctuations in the electromagnetic environment with his research project Haunt. The penny dropped for both of us. The Saucy, as a tug-boat, has reels of copper wire attached to its decks which may be acting as some sort of antennae for electromagnetic radiation. The wreck is quite shallow and sits at 23 metres, still within a range to pick up man-made signals.

This notion is also added to by the fact that water has a ‘memory’ for frequency. ‘In order to account for magnetic field effects and a memory for frequency it is desirable to think in terms of a helical structure in water, so that structure waves would occupy those electrical and acoustic modes of propagation appropriate to a helix. These must be capable of being set up in water by the spectrum of coherent oscillations, which uniquely characterizes the chemical bonds comprising the original tincture models: or in the case of electromagnetic potentisation, by the frequencies of the electromagnetic fields applied. It does not matter whether the structure waves are electromagnetic or acoustic because bio-molecules are mostly large dipoles and will behave as transducers (energy and signal converters)’. Electromagnetic Man

Is it possible then, that the copper wire is attracting more EM radiation than would exist on a normal wreck, and is the fact that water has a ‘memory’ for frequency adding to the bizarre ESP occurrences experienced by the divers? According to my reading, the salinity of water also aids its ‘memory’ to a certain point, so at what point (saline concentration or water depth) would this salinity affect and slow down both the electromagnetic memory and the electromagnetic ability to propagate; are these two interlinked and if so what is the formulaic relationship? How does increased electromagnetic activity in water affect human perception at depth, particularly if the EM wave has ‘departed’ from itself, leaving only the magnetic half? Acoustic waves travel more easily through water whereas EM waves are absorbed, but how does this opposing fact (as regards our usual air environment) contradict ‘normal’ perception?

Here then, in the HMS Saucy, only 40 miles away from my home, is a future project; an underwater arts residency that will set out to document and record the electromagnetic frequencies, sounds and sightings around this vessel. To potentially investigate if we indeed have one large sub-aqua radio that electromagnetically influences perception. If I can mange ten dives, another exam and a few more cold-water mask-clears, I may be able to start to find out. First of all however, I must let myself love again… my cold blue fins tenderly immersed in a warm Red Sea.