Boat Launch

Transcript:

Walk to the water. Get as close as you can without touching it. Is the water still or in motion? If it is moving what direction does it flow?

Now look around you. What do you notice?

I can’t help but notice the array of dead trees mirroring the city skyline. Some stand tall like monuments to their own histories, others lay felled as their roots open up to view like storybooks. These trees did not stand here when they were alive, they have been carefully sourced and placed in order to replicate the natural cycles of wetland ecosystems.

An array of poles stand before me, brimming with more-than-human activity (much of it invisible to me), in the distance a pole to the east juts out above the Toronto Hydro Substation and another to the west emerges from the Hydro One Switching Yard (the inner workings of which also evading my knowledge).

Move as a guest towards the array of roots balls without disturbing what is around you. As you study the dense network of meandering tendrils. Follow one until you can’t any longer, then follow another. Keep getting lost in the roots of trees.