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shorelinesWe start with a piece written at the shoreline between science and the imagination, by Caspar Henderson. Walk along it, wonder at it. After all, as you will read, there has been life on the world's shorelines for about 3.5 billion years or more. Shorelines continues with original fiction and photography, poetry and painting, sound and film, animation and new technologies, from, among others, Shiromi Pinto, Ken Worpole, Jacob Ross and many others. Walk with us along the edge.
openDemocracy’s “Shorelines” project goes under the waves in a glorious farewell, with Candida Clark and Maryam Maruf’s technicolour, multimedia tour of beachlife – from the dawn of sunbathing to the birth of the bikini. Read the rest of this post...
From the South China Sea to Florida's South Beach; lobsters and sharks; icebergs, canals and coral reefs - openDemocracy's “Shorelines” project has offered a lyrical combination of voice, image and narrative. Now, as it reaches the shore's limit, get ready for the big swell. We present an exclusive compilation: the sound of the sea and a pick of some of our best images. Read the rest of this post...
From reef paths to shining beaches, his native Florida to Canary Islands birthplace, Ryal Mills lives for surfing. Waiting for the next swell, he shares the beauty, the passion, and the business of being “inside the tube”. Read the rest of this post...
Caspar Henderson visits a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean state of Palau to help protect coral reefs against the effects of global climate change. In the process he encounters a world of natural beauty, enriching humanity, and surprising history that makes him reflect on life’s fundamentals. Read the rest of this post...
Lake Balaton represents for Hungarians historical pride, cultural symbol, and linguistic tap-root. But for Zuzsanna Ardó it is also a place of remembered pleasures of childhood, motherhood, and belonging. Read the rest of this post...
Fishing the world’s oceans is killing–field and love’s labour, pitiless trade and human adventure. Amy Prinsloo rides every wave. This is her stunning, loving, gut–wrenching, unforgettable memoir. Read the rest of this post...
“The third world war will be a war over water”. Acclaimed documentary filmmakers Sanjay Barnela and Vasant Saberwal describe the experience of filming India’s current water crisis and tell the story of a people in search of water. Plus poetry inspired by their films from Maya Khosla. Read the rest of this post...
“Even in his sleep he longed for the ocean”. On the edge of England’s wild North Yorkshire coast, openDemocracy crosses generations in this exclusive of sound, photography and storytelling. Hear Candida Clark read from her acclaimed novel of grief and redemption, “The Mariner’s Star”, while her mother, Sally Heywood, evokes the experience of a once-vibrant fishing community and remembers “the last of the last”. Read the rest of this post...
“If there is a God / She lives under the sea”. openDemocracy dips its toes in the South China Sea with “Wavelines”, a stunning exhibition in images and words of life beneath Malaysia’s Perhentian and Redang Islands, organised by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia. Angela Goh introduces the project, Ellen Butler describes the deep-sea experience, and Mano Maniam dives for poetic pearls. Read the rest of this post...
The vast experiences, stories, and longings of generations of local people are the sediment of Singapore’s tiny river estuary. openDemocracy presents six poems inspired by the rich human resources in the past of the south-east Asian city state. Read the rest of this post...
The work of Pele Cox, a young English poet, presents a delicate, perceptive view of nature and human entanglements. Read the rest of this post...
“There is nothing so ordinary as the extraordinary Principality of Ponquattuck.” The second of two extracts from Eva Salzman’s novel-in-progress, “Broken Island”. Read the rest of this post...
“Once visited you take the smell of the sea with you everywhere, for the rest of your life”. On the shores of Ponquattuck, North America’s “Land of Water”, Eva Salzman finds the biggest treasure of all: the sea itself. The first of two extracts from a novel-in-progress, “Broken Island”. Read the rest of this post...
Amid the “fan-like debris / of the tides”, Eva Salzman searches for another shore. Read the rest of this post...
“If I walked to the sea now / what would I find?” Between winds and shelter, a young writer circumnavigates time and the shore’s edge. Read the rest of this post...
Dominic Pote’s photographs surf the dynamic flow where seascape and landscape meet. openDemocracy exclusively previews his current exhibition, whose “Shorelines” title serendipitously matches our own theme. First, Candida Clark hears literary echoes in his visual art. Read the rest of this post...
It’s easy to take a shoreline for granted: lost in contemplation of what lies beyond, the edge itself receives little notice. But what happens when even the brink begins to crumble? Faced with this dilemma, the Global Coral Reef Alliance haven’t stood still on the beach – they’ve grown their own. Read the rest of this post...
“This is a fairground, we the entertainment”. In the dramas and longings of a tourist resort on a hot Caribbean night – from a crowded Friday night fish fry to solitary swims in the sea – Pauline Holdstock’s mesmerising story unfolds. Read the rest of this post...
Memory, landscape and language meet and are transformed in Mick Delap’s salt-sprayed poems of Ireland's “oceanic West”. Read the rest of this post...
“We should w_nder more”. The emotional undercurrents flowing between two near-identical English words fertilise Elly Clarke’s imagination. Read the rest of this post...
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