FROTH RINSE REFLECT SEND, 2013
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FROTH RINSE REFLECT SEND, 2013
Commissioned by 4Culture for the Brightwater Environmental Education Center at Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant, Woodinville, WA participatory public project; 600 bars of custom-made glycerin soap with ceramic “stones” with poetry inscribed encased in each bar, map of service area for wastewater treatment plant with stickers Participants are invited to take one bar of soap, after marking on a map the location where their soap will enter the waste stream. Each custom-made bar of clear glycerin soap has a hand-made ceramic “stone” inside imprinted with lines from a poem written for this project by Janet Norman Knox. As participants use their soap, they eventually receive the poem stone: a relic and reminder of their connection to the massive wastewater system. CARBON SHINING IN OUR FACES by Janet Norman Knox we are mostly water—two H one O—polar and pulling we read each other in our palms 1 human cell to 9 bacteria froth hand over hand rinse you swirl me our Coriolis clockwise northern hemisphere drains DNA—elementary Watson and Crick—quick—spin a glint reflect light the Sound send our C to salt and sea |
