It is the largest migration on earth happening every day while we sleep. These creatures, beautiful in their transparency swim thousands of feet from the ocean's depth to feed. It is called the Vertical Migration. They are male and female, with wings and horns, deep and shallow sea dwellers which possess a grace that I never will. This creature, the size of my pinkie finger is just big enough to hold all of my metaphors.
I nicknamed this one Herbie, the hermaphroditic Sea Angel of the Arctic. They are special in more ways than I can name. It navigates its way upward through the polar seas with what appears to be a wound in the center of its chest. Upon closer observation you realize that the Sea Angel navigates the gauntlet of predators with its heart exposed, like a signal flare within. Navigating the earth with nothing to hide.
Opening scene from yet to be titled video by Anna Peach, filmed in Newfoundland, Canada, June 2007.
3 comments:
it's hard to believe that the seas are so full of such strange creatures- they look both alien and familiar at the same time.
Momo-san,
Beauty. Everything about you is beauty. Sensei
Mahalo nui loa, sensei
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