Living Waters

Living Waters uses a diversity of rituals to call on the fundamental significance of water to human life. The piece invites cross-cultural solidarities in the face of humanitarian and natural disasters by exploring the unifying significance of water.

The installation is housed within an emergency shelter and includes 7 jerricans of water gathered along the Cape Fear River watershed, a video installation of the surface of that body of water, and an audio collage composed of recorded water rituals and the sounds of water.

Commissioning agency: North Carolina Museum of Art; Collaborators: Kulsum Tasnif; Children of the Catawba, Coharie, Haliwa Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi, Sappony, Waccamaw Siouan Tribes recorded by Wyatt Radford and Travis Moffitt at UNC Pembroke’s Museum of the Southeast American Indian; Ramya Kapadia; Jesse Huddleston and the CityWell United Methodist Church Music Team; Raleigh/Cary Community Chevra Kadisha including Bonnie Leach, Elyse Goldberg-Werner, Maryanne Klein, and Rachel Strauss; Kyle Sullivan – audio and video; Courtney Evans – fabrication; Alex Sauser-Monnig – fabrication R. Stein Wexler, 2024

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