🚿(under)water

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke

collection inspired by sharks 🦈

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
―Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes ‘What the hell is water?’”15 We need to become aware of our immersions.

James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen

Amie Pearce • What is marine snow?

Vampire squid snack time. Photo by NOAA.

Amie Pearce • Meet the Thresher Shark

Fascinating feats such as skin regeneration.

This evolution isn’t unique to sharks - starfish, sea cucumber, crustaceans and other ocean animals are adept in the art of cell regeneration, but sharks are the only fish with this remarkable ability to heal.

Amie Pearce • The self-healing superpower of sharks

Sharks are essentially living fossils, having glided through the Earth’s oceans for over 400 million years already. They have outlasted the dinosaurs and have survived mass extinction events to become one of the most successful and enduring groups of animals on the planet.

Amie Pearce • The evolution of sharks

Maybe the real value of leaving your pond for the ocean is to access scale.

For years, I had a selfish lens on the fish in the pond metaphor. I thought about how I could’ve stayed the smartest fish in my pond if I had remained in my pond. I debated and discussed the advantages of being a small fish in a large pond - how it widened my horizons and

If you don’t have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.