Flood
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Water levels rise and recede here. This island has been made to support seasonal and environmental changes. A coastal wetland ecosystem has been brought back to this place.
Toni Morrison said “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” Look around you to find a place where water’s memory is expressed. "Remembering like water complicates the colonial "past" and rescribes present and multivalent futures” (Céline Chuang, "what the river reveals: remembering like the water," 2022). Take in the sights, sounds and smells for a moment.
What will this place look, smell and sound like in 10 years, 100 years, 1,000 years? Begin to fabulate a story of the city’s future relation to water. Fabulation is when you imagine and speak about things as if they were real. Speak your story aloud, you may whisper if you choose. Let the sounds from my time weave together with your voice.
Keep walking until your story has ended.
I wonder, where do you end up?
