I love the idea behind photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher's Topography of Tears, a series of images of 100 magnified teardrops. Fisher, who refers to each tear as "a tiny history," wondered whether drops shed under different circumstances (grief, laughter, onion-cutting) looked different from one another. Turns out, they do. The photos are fascinating, but what I love most are her beautiful words:
Tears are the medium of our most primal language in moments as unrelenting as death, as basic as hunger, and as complex as a rite of passage. They are the evidence of our inner life overflowing its boundaries, spilling over into consciousness…It's as though each one of our tears carries a microcosm of the collective human experience, like one drop of an ocean.
(From top to bottom: laughter, grief, onions, yawning from exhaustion.)
Tears are the medium of our most primal language in moments as unrelenting as death, as basic as hunger, and as complex as a rite of passage. They are the evidence of our inner life overflowing its boundaries, spilling over into consciousness…It's as though each one of our tears carries a microcosm of the collective human experience, like one drop of an ocean.
(From top to bottom: laughter, grief, onions, yawning from exhaustion.)
Visit Rose-Lynn Fisher's website, here. Thanks, Smithsonian Magazine.
A friend had posted this on facebook and I still can't quite fathom it. I do like believing in "more than meets the eye" though :) I remember watching a doco on heart transplate patients who take on characteristics of their previous owners. This idea that the heart stores memory is a really sweet idea to me. I also agree, her writing is very poetic much like yours!
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