Library of Waters
Library of Waters was a collaborative action in the ocean comm/uni/ty. It neededwater and enthusiastic people with a mobile phone to happen. And there we went, across different geographies to capture the encounter of bodies of water, some of the ‘contained’ and the ‘uncontained’ versions of salty liquids: humans and the Ocean.’
These are the first lines of a very enthusiastic text that describes how important the experience of a group acting for the Ocean can be. By answering to a call in which our community members needed only to send a photograph of a water being they related to, they have organically and synchronizedly addressed the ocean needs of our present times: attention! Our ocean needs our attention! Not only that, but our ocean also needs memory and our anticipation to act on its behalf.
So, to activate the memory that nature has imprinted in our environment and its cohabitants, we have used the Golden Section, also known as the Fibonacci’s rule, to create the grid in which the pictures are presented. The same rule was also used to determine the rhythm the images flow in the page.
Additionally, in the Library of Waters pdf book, pages are supposed to be free from binding so that arranging and rearranging the order of any of them can be as fluid as waves, coming and going, interconnecting, absorbing and being absorbed by the other images of water that coexist in this collective.