TEMPORAL IMAGES OF WATER

FLOWING BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE

Moisture of a rock, a tsunami wave, a synapse spark, a geyser, the pupil, a cloud in the sky, the blue color of the planet, a sip and a spill on the face, the Hudson River, the white spot on the globe named Greenland, a cup of coffee, and a glass of wine, an AI answer, a memory in our brain, a round stone on the Black Sea shore, the skin of your grandma, a flower, the taste in your mouth, the reflection of your face and the city, the shape of a fish, the warmth of a flame, the sound of a waterfall, the smell of rain, the fruit you ate this morning, and this text as well.  All these and a myriad more are images, traces, flowevents of water. But there are more and more that are beyond that. We kind of hypothesize about them, but not even that they are beyond our minds. Water is an "I" that is independent of us and of everything else. It has its own acausal path in the world, and that also is a temporal image of water.

The primordial idea of an image comes from water. Light is one part of that image, and water is the other, not only as a reflection but as a see-through. Around these thoughts are created the art projects that I will present here. My artworks are also temporal images of water. (I'm not sure whether they are nature or culture, because nature is also culture. That is another conversation about "us" and everything that is not "us.") All my works are reflections on my hours, days, months of observation on the Hudson River from Hunson Falls to Verassano Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island. The artwork I will share with you is "UNDAE FLUMINIS." It is an installation that embodies the flow of water.

UNDAE FLUMINIS

Project dimensions are from 50mX20m to 200mX100m. (depends on the natural conditions of the waterway)

Project description:

A mesh of Optical Fibers in which every fiber is introduced and sealed in a microtube (containing air and making the fiber float). Light source: LCD light blue color, with a floating battery mounted on a buoy at one side of the mesh. The mesh is fixed on the bottom of the waterway or on the shores. The natural water flow amplitude causes the optical fibers to move with the waves, creating an uncontrollable flowing image. The artist or the author created the conditions here and steps aside, leaving the water to present itself in an acausal way. Nothing in this work is predictable; not the speed of the flow, the natural light change of the sky, the change of transparency of the water through the appearance of residues from other elements, the wind effect, or the water current effect on the installation is predictable. The project was tested on Stony Brook River, New York State. My team is currently in negotiations with the Brooklyn Municipality authorities to place the installation during the Summer of 2027 in East River's Dumbo Park between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge. 

SOKYMATHIS

Project Concept

Humanity’s deepest existential flaw is its stubborn attachment to the ground, demographically, geographically, culturally, economically, and intellectually. We have built our entire civilization on the illusion that land is eternal and immovable. Every war, every border, every real-estate empire, every national myth is rooted in this primitive clinging to soil. Yet the planet itself is 71% water and has always been telling us: your true home is the sphere's surface, not its crust. Sokymathis is the name of the first continent that finally listens. Ζωκύματις – the Living Wave-Continent – is not a fantasy; it is the logical next step in human evolution. It is the moment when humanity stops digging graves and begins living on the living skin of the planet. On Sokymathis, there are no fixed addresses, no sacred territories, no ancestral dirt to die for. Citizenship is measured by the latitude of mind, not the longitude of birth.

 Project dimensions: 200X200X71cm

Material: metal, mirror vinyl, Hudson River water, and aerogel and advanced lightweight materials — Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) beads and Hollow Glass Microspheres (HGMs) — the same families of ultra-light, hydrophobic additives now used in the construction of today’s tallest skyscrapers and high-rise buildings.

 Project description: Sokymathis is a performance installation in which the artist creates, draws, and sculpts a floating object on a round water surface in front of the audience. The solid material used for the object is composed of two ultramodern inventions of technology for building the most unbelievable structures on earth, the skyscrapers, the NYC skyline,