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When I Was Furthest From Water
1.
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE,
ON AN ISLAND.
INSIDE A VEIL OF CICADA DRONE.
WITH THE SMELL OF WILD FENNEL,
AND HONEY-COLOURED DIRT AT MY FEET.
WATER WAS IN ME AT THE BEGINNING,
I FORGOT IT AGED ABOUT SEVEN,
BUT TROUBLE CAME –
MADE ME GO HUNTING
FOR THE SOURCE.
I CAME FROM WATER,
IT WAS A LONG ROAD BACK.
I’M GOING BACK, NOW.
In WHEN I WAS FURTHEST FROM WATER, Joanna Hruby charts her journey back towards the element of Water after years of estrangement, and her pilgrimage-journey to the Font of Balàfia on the island of Ibiza. It is an account of forgetting and remembering, accompanied by - and in response to - thirteen exquisite black and white photographs of Joanna at Balàfia, taken by Michaela Meadow.
WHEN I WAS FURTHEST FROM WATER is part of the Seven Doors in an Unyielding Stone series.
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE,
ON AN ISLAND.
INSIDE A VEIL OF CICADA DRONE.
WITH THE SMELL OF WILD FENNEL,
AND HONEY-COLOURED DIRT AT MY FEET.
WATER WAS IN ME AT THE BEGINNING,
I FORGOT IT AGED ABOUT SEVEN,
BUT TROUBLE CAME –
MADE ME GO HUNTING
FOR THE SOURCE.
I CAME FROM WATER,
IT WAS A LONG ROAD BACK.
I’M GOING BACK, NOW.
In WHEN I WAS FURTHEST FROM WATER, Joanna Hruby charts her journey back towards the element of Water after years of estrangement, and her pilgrimage-journey to the Font of Balàfia on the island of Ibiza. It is an account of forgetting and remembering, accompanied by - and in response to - thirteen exquisite black and white photographs of Joanna at Balàfia, taken by Michaela Meadow.
WHEN I WAS FURTHEST FROM WATER is part of the Seven Doors in an Unyielding Stone series.
36 pages, Paperback
Published October 31, 2018
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March 12, 2020
This is Joanna's bildungsroman. A life lived. A return to the water within. Beautiful words and touching images.
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