[-empyre-] On legacies & losses

[Aviva Rahmani]

I honestly haven't wanted to contribute to this thread because it is so painful, albeit critical. Carolee was a close friend and a fellow traveler since I first met her in 1967. The posts I've read on this thread bring up many important issues about legacy but are so evocatively painful that I haven't been able to read them all as thoroughly as I intend to when the rawness dies down. I was recently inspired to assemble this archive: https://issuu.com/ghostnets/docs/rahmani_50years-medres out of pure desperation that all would be lost. My studio is on Vinalhaven Island, 3' from deep water in the path of sea level rise and I can't afford to build up the piers. There was already a spring tide flood in 1994 with waves breaking UNDER the floor of the studio.
    What to say about this that hasn't already been said? I identify with all the biological species going extinct, disappearing before they have been identified, let alone, catalogued. Perhaps we are like the lost languages of disappearing indigenous civilizations with all the lore a language contains.
    Thank you to Tim and all the others working so hard to conserve and share what can be saved.

Aviva Rahmani, PhD
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