new beginnings

It's about a new art project: WATER. The 100 Days Project will give me the discipline to focus on my daily creative practice. As a starting point here is a  poem written by one of my favourite New Zealand poets. Same as last years project; My Daily Fix, I will be travelling which means simplicity of materials is essential.

Rain

I can hear you
making small holes
in the silence
rain

If I were deaf
the pores of my skin
would open to you
and shut

And I
should know you
by the lick of you
if I were blind

the something
special smell of you
when the sun cakes
the ground

the steady
drum-roll sound
you make
when the wind drops

But if I
should not hear
smell or feel or see
you

you would still
define me
disperse me
wash over me
rain

Hone Tuwhare 1922-2008