photo © Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Atlantic Ocean Azores 2026

Nicol joined us and our Sea-Water Amplification research and education platform during March and April 2026 to devote herself to her artistic research work on the relationship with water, the ocean and more-than-human forces. This text is a retrospective of her research work and her stay on the Pico island.

Only gradually did I begin to understand certain ideas I had previously encountered through the work of Sea-Water Amplification. Concepts such as embodied perception, meteorological sensitivity or more-than-human relationality no longer felt distant or theoretical. They became tangible through repetition, attention and direct experience.

🌿 You can read the text here: To Think with the Ocean 2026

🌿 or on our Journal of Sea-Water Amplification: To Think with the Ocean 2026