My site specific installation in Corteconcepcion, Spain, Holding Water, reflects on our evolving relationship with water in an era of global water insecurity. Once a communal life source, water has been commodified, controlled, and depleted by human systems, impacting most heavily on ecosystems and communities deeply connected to land and water. Mediterranean regions now face the compounding effects of global warming with extreme weather events intensifying water scarcity.

In the serene finca, sunlight illuminates water unnaturally held in suspension above iron-rich earth and wind-caressed grasses. Forming a meandering path similar to that of a natural creek, four hundred plastic bags keep water contained above soil, an interruption symbolic of water cycle imbalances caused by humans. The installation’s materiality reminds of the region’s extractive, contaminating industrial and agricultural practices that threaten water availability.

Holding Water calls for change, inviting reflection on how we might move away from controlling water toward becoming intimately attuned with water, land, and the rhythms of the earth. By engaging visitors in the act of holding water for return to soil, the work invites the body into ecological process, a gesture of reconnection that reimagines our place not as external stewards of nature, but as nature itself responding to imbalance.

Pre-use tap water (water often wasted as it warms), refurbished plastic freezer bags, irrigation flag stakes, copper wire.