Concept and Design Team:
Sydney McManus + Kaïa Etezadi + Noah Depelteau + Simon Pouliot
Book:
Graphic design: Kaïa Etezadi and Sydney McManus
Writing: Kaïa Etezadi and Sydney McManus
Half letter size
Paper: Japanese paper, vellum
Binding: kettle stitch
edition of 11 copies
Garment:
Fabrication and designer: Noah Depelteau
Material: eco dyed cotton
More than half of our body is water. Water in motion, pouring in and flushing out. As breath is drawn in, water seeps into the lungs. Water that cycles, seethes, oozes: uncontrollably, unwittingly. We are water in constant flux. Our water is never ours, never the same, uncontainable. The boundaries of our bodies dissolve, overlap, absorb.
We have always been water, with(in) water, pushed from womb to humid air to stream. A part of and kin to, we exist both with and within water.
As home, as threshold, as body, as guide invites us to recognize our intimacies with water, its symbolic and tangible powers, its boundlessness, and the active collaboration taking place with(in) water/human community. It asks us to acknowledge the invisible waters within us, the undertow of our somatic balance, and the perpetual seeping beyond our bodily boundaries.