Care vessels for common water

glazed stoneware

Nurturance can be unwieldy, difficult, incomplete, impossible, visionary, outward, inward. The vessels render care visible. They are an orgy of care.

I drink because someone lifts water to me. I pour because someone needs to drink. When I give water to myself, there are unseen hands and resources supporting mine. My need for care and my ability to give it ebb and swell.

The responsibility of care is unequally distributed, and so is the right to receive care. People who give the most care and people who need the most care are marginalized because nurturance runs counter to capitalism. It is messy, counterproductive, and more distributive than accumulative.

Sometimes nurturance looks like kinship, sometimes it looks like labor. Giving and receiving care is as necessary and as complicated as water.