Revearsal James GRIFFINDREWDAVIS.2009
As a proud Virginian I feel that no other river epitomizes Virginia and it's cultural history more than the James River. I have been following the James from the Allegheny Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay. It saddens me greatly to see nature ruined by Man however the river is doing a lot better because of efforts to stop pollution are stronger than ever, yet it seems to me almost near impossible to fix now after near 200 years of continuous growth since the Industrial Revolution. All We can do is our best to keep things clean and hopefully in time nature will fix itself. A lot of Cities were built on top of naturally special places that are now ruined probably permanently...
This piece represents for me a progression through reversal. It is possible to travel through time in our dreams and sometimes to move forward you need to go backwards.
The waters of the James ran backwards until all of the Ocean was swallowed up by the Mountains. As the River ran backwards in time it took with it all the blasphemies of Man in order to restore Order. Finally the floodgates were released and all the Waters of the World flowed back down the James to the Sea.
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