PARASITIC HEALING BATH: WATERFALL

This healing waterfall takes on the form of a parasitic nature, contrasting the concept of parasitic architecture, which are architectonic attachments to existing buildings or structures. By attaching to the existing building, the healing waterfall with spiritual Coast Salish and African plants serves to daylight the colonial systems that have come to cover up the natural systems and relations on the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People. The piece will highlight the continued healing journeys from the displacement and disposition of Black people in the Americas by highlighting the connection with ancestors, our environment and our imagination. In so doing, this piece will invite a reflection and engagement with our environment as instrumental in our healing journey and the need for a reciprocal stewardship. This piece will highlight medicinal, spiritual and magical floras as a means to invite participants to an Afrocentric healing rite and inspire a kinship between people and nature.

Project: Future Arts Residency Program- Augment Seattle

Project Type: Large scale Public Digital Art (Augmented Reality)

Location: Seattle

Team: Future Arts | Houdini Interactive

Year: 2021- Ongoing

Parasitic Healing Bath is a collaborative and community-driven project part of Future Arts’ Future Artist in Residence (FAIR) program with creative direction by artist Divine Ndemeye, with support from Indigenous plant knowledge stewardship by Bri Castilleja, and creative technology support by Houdini Interactive .