{"id":9246,"date":"2021-06-10T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infectingthecity.com\/2021\/?page_id=9246"},"modified":"2021-06-11T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T07:03:33","slug":"my-response-to-the-spotted-thick-knee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infectingthecity.com\/2021\/home\/my-response-to-the-spotted-thick-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"MY RESPONSE TO THE SPOTTED THICK KNEE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>MY RESPONSE TO THE SPOTTED THICK KNEE<\/h1>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/infectingthecity.com\/2021\/artist\/julia-raynham\/\">JULIA RAYNHAM<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Three months into Lockdown2020, with humans quarantined and the commercial-industrial city suspended, I began to hear the nocturnal calls of yellow spotted thick knee couples &#8211; kiwiet birds\u2026 always paired. They are water birds, indigenous to Woodstock\u2019s coastal neighbourhood. I\u2019d never seen or heard their song, in the forty years I\u2019ve lived here. I realised the birds had instinctively returned to the park, playing field and abandoned bowling green, seeking water. For underneath these virgin grounds is a mountain aquifer, historically named \u2018Leliefontein\u2019 &#8211; lily spring.<\/p>\n<p>This short film traces the bird\u2019s water course along its linear trajectory, from the mountain to sea. Its source flows from above the Woodstock Cave, down its riverine gorge in the aftermath of April\u2019s fast fire, where it abounds into a natural spring, incongruously hi-jacked by a shooting range. The water is then diverted underground into mountain aquifers beneath Philip Kgosana Drive and the Walmer Estate neighbourhood , beneath Nelson Mandela Boulevard and the Woodstock neighbourhood, ultimately flowing into the harbour sea. 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