the waters we carry

a grid of 15 thumbnail photos 3 down and 5 across. Images are all of water taken in Mexico, Ireland, Portugal, Canada, New England and the Antarctic.

the waters we carry is a framework to explore through research and artistic gesture the question, “how do we hold an understanding of the many ways we all interact with water in our daily lives - from the cellular to the global?”

Framed as a series of experiments - the waters we carry is a multimodal documentation of attempts to communicate with a more-than-human speculative sentience aka the earth’s ocean. These attempts are translated through multiple modes using image, video, morse code, performance score, climate data, and responsive coding to try to understand the interdependence and synchronicity of bodies (human, global) as fragile yet resilient systems.

Drawing from research in (among others) deep ecologies, queer studies, climate science, cultural anthropology, artistic practice as research methodology. The framework for the waters we carry starts from the following assumptions:

That technology along will not save us
That we can not innovate our way out of climate change without radically divesting from the oppressive system that is capitalism
That the modern human condition is a blip in the geological time of the earth and also has had an enormously outsized impact
That all of our actions and choices are interconnected and imperfect
That we need to think collectively and collaboratively with our more-than-human co-conspirators, and also that there will be inevitable illegibilities in these collaborations.
That we have the power to make the world a better place.