Like Water: A Meditation on Impermanence

Omi Lu-Nath

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This project explores the fluidity of existence and the illusion of separateness between humans and nature. Inspired by Siddhartha, I reflect on the river—not just as water, but as a symbol of time, transformation, and connection.

Through diptychs, I juxtapose human and organic forms, blurring the line between self and world. I am not so different from a rock or a stick; time is the only thing that separates us. Flesh, like stone, weathers, bends, and eventually returns to the earth.

What if we saw ourselves not as separate from the earth and nature, but as part of it, shaped by the same forces of time and transformation? Where does a person end and a tree begin? How much of what we call "human" is simply another phase in the life cycle of matter?

Looking at life from a broader perspective, beyond linear time, helps me make sense of loss—of people, things, and time itself—and find beauty in the constant motion and change. The river moves, yet remains. Life changes, yet it is always whole.