Gia Kim

Gia Kim Instagram – My friend Haruks took these beautiful underwater pictures of me and the amazing sea life we saw that day. 🥹 I saw things I’d NEVER seen before and saw colors I would’ve thought were “artificial,” but of course they already existed before we saw them on the color palette 🤣 so many new things yet truly there is nothing new under the Sun… I’ve always been fascinated by sea creatures and seen them countlessly through the screen, in small and BIG aquariums… but it was a WHOLE other experience to visit them in their own habitat, my being a guest in their home as opposed to seeing them in a box brought in for my convenience and amusement. Being an (albeit uninvited) guest in their home, it was truly humbling to see them in their day to day sea life, seeing real life Nemo and his dad hanging out by an anemone, Ursula’s moray eels eerily floating about inside reefs with their mouths ajar, the prettiest colors and shapes in reefs I’d never seen in any man made creation… I kept thinking, ‘Wow, our human imagination can never catch up to what really exists in wildernature.’ Exploring their environment where they breathe freely and function at their full capacity, and me with all the gear that keeps me alive and with just a bit of hubris or mistake I could easily choke and die, it really made me think… even though we entitle ourselves to every place and thing that exists, there are life forms that truly are at home where we are not. I guess we tend to make ourselves too much at home in already occupied homes.
Seeing a school of yellow snappers swarm around me was incomparable to any artificial visual experience I’ve ever had. I’ve always thought it was very quiet underwater, but actually there was also so much more auditory stimulation than I’d imagined.
It’s nearing the end of summer, but if you haven’t already, this is your sign to go diving or at least snorkeling before it’s all over!!🙏🏻✨
다이빙 자격증 따고나서 처음으로 한 오션다이빙… 정말 정말 상상 그 이상이었다. 우리의 편의를 위해 옮겨진 수족관 속 그들의 모습과, 내가 그들의 세상에 (초대되진 않았지만 간^^;) 손님으로 가서 경험해본 그들의 세상은… 정말 이들은 여기가 집이구나. 새삼 뼈저리게 깨달았다. 우린 정말 어디든 갈 수 있다고 다짜고짜 남의 집에 잘도 침범하고 더럽히고 사는구나. 예기치 못한 뼈때리고 고개가 절로 숙여지는 순간들이 너무 많았다.
올 여름 끝무렵이지만 스노클링이라도 한 번 가보시길!!!🙏🏻 | Posted on 23/Aug/2024 16:37:11