Skywater is our collaborative philosophy of water in word and in image, taking inspiration from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and other writings, and from Walden Pond itself, from Walden’s own water and the waters in its vicinity – the other ponds and rivers of Thoreau’s native Concord. There are yet other waters and other witnesses who have seeped into our imagination, who have wet our method. But we always come back to Walden. Thoreau once said that Walden Pond is an eye. We are trying to look at, through, and with this eye, as we believe Thoreau tried to do. What we have discovered, with Thoreau as our guide, is that there is a primordial pairing of water and sky. Once you glimpse this fact, you see it everywhere. It is all over Thoreau’s pages. He was trying to see something, to say or speak it, and to show what he saw. We too have glimpsed this relationship, and we also seek to give it voice, in word and in image, to speak it and to show it. Skywater – a title we have borrowed from Thoreau himself – is our attempt to do just that.
