Viktor Schauberger
Pioneering Austrian forester, inventive iconoclast and visionary, he understood that Nature is a great, interdependent system. As a philosopher,he understood that Everything is Connected. His teacher was Water. Water taught him about spin and about motion.
His study of natural energy began to point the way to many of the basic problems of energy provision and transformation. Our well-meant, but naive attempts to provide ourselves with energy from hydro-electric to nuclear fission that generate harmful long-term effects on our total environment. His explorations of implosive energy and diamagnetism revealed many practical applications, most of which have yet to be developed.
Schauberger saw clearly how we could, and must, become a better partner with Nature, and how we, in essence, could learn to get out of our own way as well. We still suffer from our own 'cures' - corrections in riverways leading to floods; industrial waste causing disease; weather patterns changing in response to our interventions.
Theodore Schwenk
It is using the language of systems, or patterns of systems, with which Theodore Schwenk unerringly described water and its spirals, circulations, inclination to spheres and circles.
His book, Sensitive Chaos, does not contain one chemical formula; one reminder of the "part-ness", or separate "constituents" of water. Instead, it contains page upon page of illustrated systems of spirals, swirls, whorls, vortices, meanders, circulations, systems, and flow.
After a while, the reader might expect the pages themselves to ripple or become transparent and fluid. After a while, too, the reader most certainly recognizes that those curved and flowing images are embedded profoundly in us - from our fingerprints to our ears; from our bones to our heart.
John Wilkes
John Wilkes is the inventor of flowforms. Wilkes' genius is that he brought the ideas of Schwenk and Schauberger together and manifested them into forms - water vessels - flowforms. All three looked at familiar things in a unfamiliar way.
Although an artist and sculptor first, John's fascination with water and with structure led him to exploring the bonds between art and science.
He studied Projective Geometry and has much experience with the physical properties of water and is a constant student of Nature.
His water sculptures - his flowforms - are not only works of art, but are vehicles by which water can be allowed to return to its more natural (meaning healthy) state by moving in its natural way.
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