THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Those who are born on the sea know more than one sea.  They are occupied by the sea, bathed, invaded, dominated by the sea.  You can stay far away for the rest of your life, but you’re still drenched in it.  If you’re born on the sea, you know there’s the sea of hard work, the sea of arrivals and departures, the sea of the sewer outlet, the sea that isolates you.  There’s the sea of filth, the sea as an escape route, the sea as an insurmountable barrier.  There’s the sea by night.

Saviano/Paranza