Amniotic sea

Amniotic sea — Impregnated with the sea, impregnated by the sea

I was dreaming. In the sea, impregnated by the sea.
My form was like a fish. But the next day, my form was like a lizard.
Was it a dream? No, it was not just a dream. It was a memory.
I remember the landscapes I saw on my far-flung journey of life's evolution.
I know the remnants of our ancestors who have been with us for 3.5 billion years, generation after generation.
Those who impregnate the sea. According to anatomist Shigeo Miki, the composition of mammalian amniotic fluid is similar to that of ancient seawater. In order for mammals to leave the sea and live on land, they had to carry seawater, the soup of life, out of the sea and into the womb. According to Miki, the mammalian embryo is reviewing in just a few days the long evolutionary memory of its mother's womb, as it rapidly transforms into a fish, an amphibian, and a reptile in the sea. Yes, we were also carrying the memory of the ancient oceans with us along with the seawater.
Philosopher Emanuele Coccia points out that plants created oceans where there were no oceans, that they transformed the world into a huge atmospheric sea and transmitted their oceanic habits to all living things. This land, filled with the breath of plants and wrapped in an amniotic membrane of ozone, may also be an amniotic sea that nurtures our life and death.
In the former Shioya Elementary School, a small school building surrounded by the sea, I think about the amniotic sea that impregnate us and that we impregnate.

Film editing : Yosuke Tsuji
Film shooting : Akimi Ota

In-video sound and video editing: Curtis Tamm
Cooperation in the production of in-video images : Arche
Ear object cooperation: KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre
Cooperation in the production of whale works: Awashima whale team.
Yanbaru Art Festival 2022-2023

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