How Does It Feel? - ACE056.8

Waves on seashore. Micro-photography of sperm and egg, and cell division; Laing’s VO saying "we are alive all the way from that very first cell…"; Earth from space, flowing lava, development of the embryo, etc. Commentary: "I grew immersed in natural waters, like the mollusc in green phosphorescence. In me sounded the crusty salt forming my singular skeleton. How to explain. Almost without the blue and bitter movement of breathing, one by one the waves repeated what I sensed and trembled with, until the salt and the spray formed me." Extracts from In the Land of the War Canoes (1914) showing Kwakiutl dancers.