Lotic Beings
Aquatic and riparian plants of Central Texas waters, projected onto the Seaholm Intake Building on Lady Bird Lake, Austin.
Lotic Beings
We work with plants as collaborators and storytellers, tracing how the living ecosystems around us hold histories of care, survival, and belonging. Projecting the aquatic and riparian plants of the sacred waters near us onto the architecture that shapes them, we look to native plants such as the waterlily, cattail, and Texas wild rice as guides to liminality, transformation, and fluidity. Through them we center feminist, queer, and Indigenous perspectives, and invite Austin to see itself in kinship with the more-than-human beings that share this water.
Music: Phoenix Amaterasu aka PHNX.WAV; Essentials Creative: Misa Yamamoto, Fabian Villa, Steven Casanova, Sixto-Juan Zavala
Model: Maxochitl Cortez
The full piece on the Seaholm Intake Building, WaterWork 2026, Lady Bird Lake, Austin.
Stills
Moments from the projection on the Seaholm Intake Building, Lady Bird Lake
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