Orals East Africa>Floating at Dunga Boardwalk At the hut of the story

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float

flōt

intransitive verb:

To remain suspended within or on the surface of a fluid without sinking.

This is the definition Google gives, but here’s what this means to me:

float

experience:

Weightless, to be suspended in space, to feel the calm of the universe and move with its vibrations.

*Our stress and anxiety quickly ebb to the sound of lapping water underneath*

When we settled on Photoshoot by the lake at Dunga Beach in Kisumu city, the instructions was to drive on Jomo Kenyatta highway until you come to the lake. But as the road winds through affluent Milimani and skirts along the lake it is tempting to veer off the road than stay the course.

For a new resident, Dunga stretches away from Kisumu Central Business District, that we had to ask several times for direction.

Pristine Lake Victoria

*Everything seems to fall in its rightful place*

When we arrived at Dunga, the view of the lake in the morning was startling, so still so blue and vast commands our attention.

We found our way to the boardwalk, hidden in undergrowth behind buildings flooded by the advancing shoreline. Climate change seems to have advanced on the shores and you have to walk on tractor tires, held down with huge stones, to get to the pier where the boardwalk slips into a nest of papyrus reeds.

When we raise our eyes from the wooden pier we notice that we are in the presence of unmolested nature, right here.

Our stress and anxiety quickly ebb to the sound of lapping water underneath. The body heals. Mood lifts. Thoughts clarify. Memory sharpens. Attention focuses. The mind expands. Setting the tone for the creative experience ahead of us.

Everything seems to fall in its rightful place, the glimmer on the lake, the fishermen clearing their boats after a long night of labor and even the papyrus in the water add a special touch to the frames, seamless.

On the rocky shores, right next to the edge of the boardwalk, the prettiest pink canoe decks and is ready to move us through the water as we search for a scene to complement our frames. The ride is slow and steady and the vast waters fill us with awe, questioning our perspective of the universe and our place in it. Water is, quite literally, immersive.

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Creative Shoot

As we create here, we have to be in tune with the forces of nature, understand the motion of the wind, follow the rays of sun and rock with the waves.

We do just that and every frame comes to life. Natural information is easy on the eyes and appears to be easier for the brain to process, the fluid surface of the lake or rough tangles of vegetation, full of life’s color and texture surrounds us and we capture them.

Our human bodies are made up of sixty percent water, this is what allows us to float, and perhaps the reason we feel drawn to large bodies of water. It is a reflective experience, we take solace in the lake and it help us re-engage with the world, reconnected and renewed.

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