Enter the depths, an austere landscape washed with dark tones, greens blues blacks. The scene is one third above. Two thirds below. A gentle lightening and darkening teases the surreal scene. Gives the feeling of current, the feeling of time. The above gently swells and rolls. Like a deep breath, a slow exhale and a repeat. The below sounds deep and base and rooted, a distant rumble, a ground.

A small flock of playful lifeforms rise from the depths of the centre frame.

An abrupt wipe. A sharp diagonal cut through the swells. A perfect cross section of Wind and current. A meeting of elements. A meeting of undulating spaces below and above. Everything is as it is, as though we’re not really there peeking in peeking under peeking through this static stable distant window. You have the best seat in the house over there on the other side of the screen somewhere in your world. Where there is no overwhelm of drowning. No crashing wave against your face. No sting of salinity calling from your vigilant mucal ports. No sputtering, gasping or grasping. Just the soothing Siren chorus set against an early evening sky’s horizon and a rising, falling, breathing, rolling, undulating pale blue liquid crystal membrane.

The Ocean scent is umami. Umami as oysters and urchins and sea greens.

A sudden wipe. A sudden and abrupt wipe. A descent. Down, down into the shoals. Into the Darkness. Into the Abyss, a vanishing, a point, a distant underwater destination.

The diaphanous creatures of this ethereal Oceanic otherworld frolick presently in play with the ether above and the viscosity below.

They travel above and they travel below –breaching, diving, flying, swimming, flocking, schooling, shoaling, approaching, dispersing –indifferent to our witnessing. Indifferent to our physics.

A wipe. A sudden and abrupt wipe. A deep inhale. A slow exhale. Repeat.

Breathing swells rise and roll, come and go. Come and go, rise and roll. The breath is refreshing. Cool and crisp. Slow and deep. Cool and crisp.

A deep inhale. A slow exhale. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.