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

These are not technical devices for exploring the world, but embodied ways to cultivate intimate ways of being with different worlds, how to get to know them, dive into them, and move around in them. Attention to the liveliness of relations takes us beyond caring for ourselves. It’s about working together. The fact that each encounter changes who we are is more than obvious.

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

Within each meeting, other paths are released, opened and also made accessible, and other micro-historical meetings are created. Learning thus takes place in different worlds that are multi-species and interdependent, without human exceptionalism.

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

More and more in our practice there are encounters that are random, very exceptional, often with diametrically opposed temporality. They are inventive and very inspirational. They require us to give up excessive control, to become curious and full of wonder. Encounters that cannot be approached through a habitual way of thinking constantly show and teach us that the Earth makes us, educates us and that we are constantly becoming Earth.

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

It is not the darkness that unites us, but the supply of the aquatic environment, every drop of rain, every tide, the breathing of the ocean, every force and pulsation. After all, this is also the aim of our educational and research practice to create space for the greatest possible inclusiveness and openness, because we are made of wonders and small invisible worlds.

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

What the current brought was much stranger.

Matter moves.

All muscle, slimy and slippery and thin strings wound around other thin nests.

Dry during the tide – illustrative.

At the new tide pulsing with life, such a pleasure.

When the ocean wakes her up again, she is a funny and serious creature.

Humans mean nothing to this beautiful and floating creature.

I am almost sure, though I am not sure of anything at all.

Imagine how easy it can be to slip into someone’s skin.

To be absorbed.

To be whole.

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

I’ll tell you who I am because of the relations I have with the ocean and other relatives.

I think of you and what you remember.
When I breathe – I sing your name.