An Ocean of Time

“In the ocean of time we can touch the past, because it is no longer behind us but spirals up to us from the deep, curls back on itself from within a terrifying empty blue. We carry the memories that have shaped us and keep them alive by continuing to be. They calcify and they are eroded by the processes of life. They become shell-like.

The ocean has once risen and taken nearly away everything from us, as suggested in both the mythological and archaeological records (i.e. memories contained in collective dreaming and memories contained in matter). It has swallowed our pasts, given us amnesia. And yet it is in the ocean through which we remember our connection to all living beings - and our connection to the cosmos to which our beloved, watery rock belongs. After all, water, the seed of life, traveled here from unknown places.”

- Sahana Ramakrishnan