SARAH KRAFT

design senior / des 4510 senior studio

Bodies of Water is an immersive, intra-active installation centered on the experience of interconnectedness. The human body is not separate or privileged from the natural world, rather our bodies are a woven piece of our surroundings. Water is a medium of connection between ourselves and our environments and can serve as a spiritual teacher if we stop and listen.

The aim of this designed installation is to facilitate a reconnection between a participants' inner selves and other human beings, thereby fostering a renewed relationship with their environments. This installation collects and utilizes participant heartbeats, adds them together and translates them into wave-like watery visuals that are projected onto all of the walls in order to illustrate that all of us share similarities and fate to the waters that sustains us.

*Title borrowed from Astrida Neimanis’ book of Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology*