When Words Meet Water (The Word Shoppe)

This book grew from a curiosity: If we are 70 percent (or more) water, how might the words we speak, to ourselves and to others, affect the water we are?What happens when a word is spoken to water and then frozen? This book began as part of another one. As I chose each word for The Word Shoppe, I spoke it aloud and offered it to water. Then I froze it and photographed the result. The water I chose was from Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba, Canada. For four months, I returned to the same place, freezing water daily and paying attention. The images that emerged are playful and surprising, an artistic conversation with water.Each word revealed its own signature pattern. Together, the images reminded me that words carry energy, and that energy takes form. What you will find here is not only a collection of images and quotes, but a record of that living exchange.Readers familiar with the water imagery explored by Masaru Emoto or the contemporary work of Veda Austin may recognize a shared curiosity here—an interest in how water responds, reflects, and reveals.Words are alive because they live within us. They carry stories, not only of where they have been, but of where they might take us. I believe that the words we speak create the life we live. These words are meant to be read slowly, savoured deeply, and gifted to those who long to reconnect with the whispers of their own hearts. Read more