Page 15 — Floating worlds diary

Wet Diary

In the moving beds of Japanese rivers,
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

Come as the way, come for the way
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.