EMERGENT

A natural shore is soft, emergent, endlessly becoming water in one direction, land in the other. Emergent plants are botanical water nymphs; rooted in the bottom, they rise through the water and emerge to flower in air. Currents choreograph leaves and stems into undulating dance, while reflections amplify the sinuosity. When wind calms, emergent shapes become abstract and serene, tracing obscure calligraphy on the water. Slim, tilted rushes, fanning downward, become brushstrokes from a slender reed-pen. Then light and water shift, and the message is gone.