an exploration of the concept of “floating worlds”
Designers Céline Pelcé (FR) and Aliki van der Kruijs (NL) are currently researching the water ways in Japan during a traveling residency. They aim to use textiles, food and words as a medium to support interactive local encounters and explore ways to behave like water, embracing movement and flexibility towards contemporary issues.
Expanding the research and using different tools, a series of encounters with locals, creatives, farmers, botanists and natural resources create a moment around the idea of water as a metaphorical foundation.
By working together with the locals, Aliki and Céline grow a sensorial archive of experiences to explore a multitude of relationship with water. This website functions as a subjective diary to share these encounters.
Ukiha, Fukuoka prefect
Bamboo collapsing
We came with the storm
mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Fire cracking
Cracking by looking
Sweet sounds
Is the water there deeper and thicker?
A sound of rain
Families of scents and ears
Silence for more noise
Water oracle
— a river can stream out
Keep listening to the silence
Inventing water in a magical site
Responses to a river full of tones
Picked up from the river to extract pigments
Do you think the river is happy?
The reply
Branches to paint, leaves of all kinds, crabs.
Being more patterns then static matter.
Bamboo collapsing
We came with the storm
mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Fire cracking
Cracking by looking
Sweet sounds
Is the water there deeper and thicker?
A sound of rain
Families of scents and ears
Silence for more noise
Water oracle
— a river can stream out
Keep listening to the silence
Inventing water in a magical site
Responses to a river full of tones
Picked up from the river to extract pigments
Do you think the river is happy?
The reply
Branches to paint, leaves of all kinds, crabs.
Being more patterns then static matter.
Salt seeds
Salt that tastes soft
Salt as a mosaic of volumes
Salt related to place
Salt knows the place
What makes it better is not written
Not stated on the back of the producer
Amount of water
Temperature humidity
The hearth and the feeling - spirituality of the makers
Dry water taste good, wet water tastes bad
Water of summer
of autumn
of winter
of spring
The circulation from the roots in the mountains
springing in the tides. Clear cold water sprouts from the sandbedding. Opening the textures with veins.
Salt floating in between
Salt harvested in the rich ecosystme of this complex
Salt for a healthy being
Salt depending on the woods
Salt waits for the next sun spell
Ribbles with sweet waters
Salt floating in between
Salt for a healthy body
Salt 3/6 times more concentrated
Salt depends on the weather
Salt waits for the next sun spell
Salt water pumped at full moon
Salt of summer
of autumn
of winter
of spring
Salt tides
Salt seeds
Salt that tastes soft
Salt as a mosaic of volumes
Salt related to place
Salt knows the place
Salt and the momentum
Salt and the time
Salt making networks
Salt transferring ecology
Salt drums
Salt maintains a stillness
Salt mineralu
Salt combinata
Mizudo
Mizu people
Hands of water
Reality is like a dream
Utakata
You shouldn’t think too much about the rules, otherwise you’ll miss the air
The water is saturated in the blood
internalized, not an object, it’s in you.
Put the cut herbs clockwise in a bowl, with a slice of turnip in the back (the moon) and a slice of radish in the front (the sun).
You’re now an adult.
Genta 8824
in the field of stars
Wheat grain contains 13% water.
Noodle also contains 13% of water.
Some water gets in, some water dries out, humidity stays the same.
Eating noodles is like eating water. Fluid as a river streaming down the throat, noodle revolution is starting.
Salt
Salt, wheat and water.
Salt, magnesium, and soy beans
Salt in the water of our body.
Sand
In the clay
In the air, coming from the rivers of China
Bringing odd numbers into a too regular structure.
葭始生
First reeds sprouts
The earth trembled and water became black. As the underground was talking, expressing years and decades of stirring, of mixing; what circulated in clear channels before, parallel, all of a sudden met, chaos. The channel diameter probably changed. Millions of micro organisms became free in a bath, spreading all over the place, darkening the water and the skin, embedded in all the cracks, veins, pores, fibers.
霜止出苗
Last frost, rice seedlings grow
A Full moon rises, and the tides are now very high and very low.
Imai draws its salt from the tides of full and new moons. Bigger tides, more movement: more minerals and nutrients. Imai keeps an eye on the sea. After Fukushima, he thought his salt production was finished. He began to observe the sea, the beach, the plants, the sky, every day. Every day, scrutinizing a changing detail, a sign of disturbance, pollution or toxicity. Water from Fukushima was released into the sea earlier this year. Still no anomaly in sight. One day he'll have to stop, when the state of the marine ecosystem is too critical. But for now, he takes his notes, he watches, he observes, he harvests water, evaporates it, collects its salt.
A river is like blood in veins. If you stop its movement, it you lower their circulation, it’s not alive anymore.
Mizudo
Mizu people
Hands of water
Reality is like a dream
Utakata
You shouldn’t think too much about the rules, otherwise you’ll miss the air
The water is saturated in the blood
internalized, not an object, it’s in you.
Put the cut herbs clockwise in a bowl, with a slice of turnip in the back (the moon) and a slice of radish in the front (the sun).
You’re now an adult.
Genta 8824
in the field of stars
Wheat grain contains 13% water.
Noodle also contains 13% of water.
Some water gets in, some water dries out, humidity stays the same.
Eating noodles is like eating water. Fluid as a river streaming down the throat, noodle revolution is starting.
Salt
Salt, wheat and water.
Salt, magnesium, and soy beans
Salt in the water of our body.
Sand
In the clay
In the air, coming from the rivers of China
Bringing odd numbers into a too regular structure.
葭始生
First reeds sprouts
The earth trembled and water became black. As the underground was talking, expressing years and decades of stirring, of mixing; what circulated in clear channels before, parallel, all of a sudden met, chaos. The channel diameter probably changed. Millions of micro organisms became free in a bath, spreading all over the place, darkening the water and the skin, embedded in all the cracks, veins, pores, fibers.
霜止出苗
Last frost, rice seedlings grow
A Full moon rises, and the tides are now very high and very low.
Imai draws its salt from the tides of full and new moons. Bigger tides, more movement: more minerals and nutrients. Imai keeps an eye on the sea. After Fukushima, he thought his salt production was finished. He began to observe the sea, the beach, the plants, the sky, every day. Every day, scrutinizing a changing detail, a sign of disturbance, pollution or toxicity. Water from Fukushima was released into the sea earlier this year. Still no anomaly in sight. One day he'll have to stop, when the state of the marine ecosystem is too critical. But for now, he takes his notes, he watches, he observes, he harvests water, evaporates it, collects its salt.
A river is like blood in veins. If you stop its movement, it you lower their circulation, it’s not alive anymore.
Mizudo
Mizu people
Hands of water
Reality is like a dream
Utakata
You shouldn’t think too much about the rules, otherwise you’ll miss the air
The water is saturated in the blood
internalized, not an object, it’s in you.
Put the cut herbs clockwise in a bowl, with a slice of turnip in the back (the moon) and a slice of radish in the front (the sun).
You’re now an adult.
Genta 8824
in the field of stars
Wheat grain contains 13% water.
Noodle also contains 13% of water.
Some water gets in, some water dries out, humidity stays the same.
Eating noodles is like eating water. Fluid as a river streaming down the throat, noodle revolution is starting.
Salt
Salt, wheat and water.
Salt, magnesium, and soy beans
Salt in the water of our body.
Sand
In the clay
In the air, coming from the rivers of China
Bringing odd numbers into a too regular structure.
葭始生
First reeds sprouts
The earth trembled and water became black. As the underground was talking, expressing years and decades of stirring, of mixing; what circulated in clear channels before, parallel, all of a sudden met, chaos. The channel diameter probably changed. Millions of micro organisms became free in a bath, spreading all over the place, darkening the water and the skin, embedded in all the cracks, veins, pores, fibers.
霜止出苗
Last frost, rice seedlings grow
A Full moon rises, and the tides are now very high and very low.
Imai draws its salt from the tides of full and new moons. Bigger tides, more movement: more minerals and nutrients. Imai keeps an eye on the sea. After Fukushima, he thought his salt production was finished. He began to observe the sea, the beach, the plants, the sky, every day. Every day, scrutinizing a changing detail, a sign of disturbance, pollution or toxicity. Water from Fukushima was released into the sea earlier this year. Still no anomaly in sight. One day he'll have to stop, when the state of the marine ecosystem is too critical. But for now, he takes his notes, he watches, he observes, he harvests water, evaporates it, collects its salt.
Mizudo
Mizu people
Hands of water
Reality is like a dream
Utakata
You shouldn’t think too much about the rules, otherwise you’ll miss the air
The water is saturated in the blood
internalized, not an object, it’s in you.
Put the cut herbs clockwise in a bowl, with a slice of turnip in the back (the moon) and a slice of radish in the front (the sun).
You’re now an adult.
虹始見
First rainbow
Genta 8824
in the field of stars
Wheat grain contains 13% water.
Noodle also contains 13% of water.
Some water gets in, some water dries out, humidity stays the same.
Eating noodles is like eating water. Fluid as a river streaming down the throat, noodle revolution is starting.
Salt
Salt, wheat and water.
Salt, magnesium, and soy beans
Salt in the water of our body.
Sand
In the clay
In the air, coming from the rivers of China
Bringing odd numbers into a too regular structure.
葭始生
First reeds sprouts
The earth trembled and water became black. As the underground was talking, expressing years and decades of stirring, of mixing; what circulated in clear channels before, parallel, all of a sudden met, chaos. The channel diameter probably changed. Millions of micro organisms became free in a bath, spreading all over the place, darkening the water and the skin, embedded in all the cracks, veins, pores, fibers.
Mizudo
Mizu people
Hands of water
Reality is like a dream
Utakata
You shouldn’t think too much about the rules, otherwise you’ll miss the air
The water is saturated in the blood
internalized, not an object, it’s in you.
Put the cut herbs clockwise in a bowl, with a slice of turnip in the back (the moon) and a slice of radish in the front (the sun).
You’re now an adult.
虹始見
First rainbow
Genta 8824
in the field of stars
Wheat grain contains 13% water.
Noodle also contains 13% of water.
Some water gets in, some water dries out, humidity stays the same.
Eating noodles is like eating water. Fluid as a river streaming down the throat, noodle revolution is starting.
Salt
Salt, wheat and water.
Salt, magnesium, and soy beans
Salt in the water of our body.
Sand
In the clay
In the air, coming from the rivers of China
Bringing odd numbers into a too regular structure.
葭始生
First reeds sprouts
The earth trembled and water became black. As the underground was talking, expressing years and decades of stirring, of mixing; what circulated in clear channels before, parallel, all of a sudden met, chaos. The channel diameter probably changed. Millions of micro organisms became free in a bath, spreading all over the place, darkening the water and the skin, embedded in all the cracks, veins, pores, fibers.
Mizudo
Mizu people
Hands of water
Reality is like a dream
Utakata
You shouldn’t think too much about the rules, otherwise you’ll miss the air
The water is saturated in the blood
internalized, not an object, it’s in you.
Put the cut herbs clockwise in a bowl, with a slice of turnip in the back (the moon) and a slice of radish in the front (the sun).
You’re now an adult.
虹始見
First rainbow
Genta 8824
in the field of stars
Wheat grain contains 13% water.
Noodle also contains 13% of water.
Some water gets in, some water dries out, humidity stays the same.
Eating noodles is like eating water. Fluid as a river streaming down the throat, noodle revolution is starting.
Salt
Salt, wheat and water.
Salt, magnesium, and soy beans
Salt in the water of our body.
Sand
In the clay
In the air, coming from the rivers of China
Bringing odd numbers into a too regular structure.
葭始生
First reeds sprouts
The earth trembled and water became black. As the underground was talking, expressing years and decades of stirring, of mixing; what circulated in clear channels before, parallel, all of a sudden met, chaos. The channel diameter probably changed. Millions of micro organisms became free in a bath, spreading all over the place, darkening the water and the skin, embedded in all the cracks, veins, pores, fibers.