Christian's Boat
April 2005 in Khao Lak, Thailand

After Christian and his mother walked away I continued to watch his boat rise and fall on each of the successive waves that lapped into shore. Each wave would take Christian’s boat back out from the shore just a bit...leaving the feeling that this little boat was sailing into the sunset. His ingenuity was apparent in his makeshift craft. The hull of the boat was the remnant of a broken life-preserver ring. The masts were sticks. The sails were leaves. He made the rudder and ballast by the same clever design of pierced leaves on sticks. The cyclic nature of the sea’s relationship to coastal Thailand seemed personified by his small craft. The materials of which Christian’s boat was crafted were taken by the force of nature during the tsunami. Months later the pieces were given back to the land in a different form. They were transformed and unified from the ingenuity of a young Thai boy, then sent forth into the sea...with a certainty the vessel, in whole or in part, would again return to the land.

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