FROTH RINSE REFLECT SEND
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 | Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant, Woodinville, WA
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
Commissioned by 4Culture for the Brightwater Environmental Education Center
2013
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
Commissioned by 4Culture for the Brightwater Environmental Education Center
2013
