DRAWINGS ON WATER-VESSELS RALPH KERLE
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wo or three mornings a week around 6.40am come rain, hail or shine, I walk down the CastleHaven Track, Castlecrag, Sydney, Australia, a steep 450 metre bush tracks built on the remnants of Sydney sandstone steps framed by local forests of dry Australian eucalyptus trees and lush undergrowth often disturbing Australian yellow crested white cockatoos or Australian native bush turkeys and their tormerntos, the local domestic dogs looking for an early monriong meal, to drop onot the foreshore of Castlehaven Reserve,a small sheletered inlet in Sailors Bay, Middle Hrabour, Sydney.
It is impossible to convey literally the therapeutic cleansing that occurred immediately. An early morning dose of nature mixed with fresh air, sea water and oneness accompanied by the imperceptible exercise of core stomach muscles and the upper and lower body moves the darkness of black thoughts rapidly.
Over months I began to physically and metaphorically sit on the powerful sea water of the natural environment of Middle Harbour, Sydney. Slowly but surely a new consciousness emerged driven by a powerful visceral voice that spoke to me regularly in a way where depression was no longer the main character. As it did, It is here secured by chain and rope to foreshore my mind discovered the core of the visceral it had been trees, I moor my second hand sea kayak bought chea- seeking in a surprising manner – the surface of the water ply off eBay in a moment of desperate inspiration. forced my mind to seek new pathways of perception. Two years ago pharmaceutical remedies had driven me Oh...and technology in the form of the iPhone helped further into depression rather than alleviating the pro- me capture fleeting glimpses of my mind working as blem leaving me no option but to consider the physical in my eyes adapted to these new natural perceptions. search of a way out of my immobilising mental darkness. I hope you find as much joyous puzzlement and reflection in these pictures as I did in creating them. This kayak has become my optics onto a world I am now beginning to perceive and treasure. - Ralph Kerle November 2013
Drawings on Water Visceral Reflections whilst Kayaking on Middle Harbour, Sydney Australia. Vessels
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