“To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
Susan Sontag
I like this quote about the connection between mortality and photography but I feel particularly in photographs and drawing that they can capture life and leave an impression against the inevitability of all human’s certain death eventually.
I have been thinking about mortality a lot as weekdays I get up early and go to the local pool and most of my friends there are at least ten or twenty years older than me some even more and pretty much all of them have some sort of aches and pains with their body and swimming is incredibly soothing for this.
So, this as well as my aches and pains including getting a skin cancer cut out and another one on my back due soon has made me want to seize the day and enjoy my life as much as possible before my mind and body eventually packs it in.
Before swimming my main exercise was bare foot beach walking two hours a day but I over did it and the arch of my right foot eventually got so sore and I couldn’t beach walk and stayed indoors for three months making art and getting cabin fever and comfort eating putting on fifteen kilos and even with the swimming over about six months haven’t been able to lose this extra weight.
“The water doesn’t know how old you are.”
Dara Torres
I love this quote about swimming and some of my friends at the pool are over eighty and are in amazing physical shape for their age and their mind is sharp and focused and they have a happy and funny disposition.
So, I guess it’s good to exercise as much as possible but I feel swimming in a pool for me is the gentlest and safest sort of exercise for my brain and body.
In conclusion the best kind of exercise and art helps me enjoy my life as much as possible to live in the moment and deal with body aches and pains and mental trauma.
