While travelling the world all members of our team faced an inspirational pulse towards water. Not only the physical element itself, but also the symbolism and that which is invisible in water. It’s amazing adaptation to external conditions and continuous cycles. How its energy is directed downwards in connection to the Sacred Earth. For 2010 we decided to pay homage to water.
Water is essential for all dimensions of life. The water we use today has been around for hundreds of millions of years, and the amount available probably hasn’t changed very much. Water moves around the world, changes forms, is taken in by plants and animals, but never really disappears. It travels in a large, continuous cycle. In this sense water stands for a continuous reusing and recycling, a metaphor for one of Boom’s paradigms, the sustainable ethos.Philosophically, the watercourse-way is an expression that alludes perfectly to what Taoism describes as appropriate behaviour. This “way” is wonderfully described in the Book of Change:
“The water endlessly flows and fills, up to a certain limit, the corners it is flowing through; Under all circumstances, it remains equal to its nature.”
According to Tao belief, water is that which gives life to all and asks nothing in return. The Chinese made from water the residence of the dragon, since all living beings come alive from water. In Chinese medicine, water is an energy that is directed downward to the earth thus connecting to it.
In Hermeticism, water is Nun, the substance of which all gods come from in the first Ennead. Among the Vedas, the water is called mâtriatamâh (primal mother), because, in the beginning, everything was like a sea without light. In India, it is generally considered that the water element keeps life that flows through all nature in the form of rain, sap, milk and blood. Unlimited and immortal, water is at the beginning and end of all things.
From BOoM festival 2010
