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Atmospheric Drawings – Cooking and Steam – STUDIOabt
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Sullen, Untamed and Intractable
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river
Is a strong brown god – sullen, untamed and intractable,
Patient to some degree, at first recognised as a frontier;
Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyer of commerce;
Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges.
The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten
By the dwellers in cities – ever, however, implacable,
Keeping his seasons and rages, destroyer, reminder
Of what men choose to forget. Unhonoured, unpropitiated
By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.
His rhythm was present in the nursery bedroom,
In the rank ailanthus of the April dooryard,
In the smell of grapes on the autumn table,
And the evening circle in the winter gaslight.
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The Dry Salvages – T.S. Eliot
Mississippi Shantyboats and Social Ecology
Wes Modes – A Secret History of American River People (the lost narratives of river people, river communities, and the river itself)
潮州廣濟橋/湘子橋 GuangJi-Xiangzi Bridge Chaozhou, China
Pontoon Bridge 1561
Mughal emperor Akbar the Greatriding the ferocious elephant Hawa’i, pursuing another elephant across a collapsing bridge of boats (left), in Basawan and Chetar Munti’s “Akbar’s Adventure with the Elephant Hawa’i”, dated 1561
Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions
Re Emotions
Bathtub
Moses Bridge
RO&AD Architecten – Moses Bridge