Floating

There is a paradox inherent in the combination → of salt + water: they have the opposite effect on the human body. But salt water also enables floating.

I have strong experiences → in the Mediterranean, particularly in (France). I am a very good floater. When you are floating, the sand on the bottom of the sea is moving with the waves. I always could sense the sand on my spine.

G.V.I am a very good swimmer but still I prefer floating to swimming. When I float, I am taken away by the waves, losing my sense of orientation. Then at some point, I am thrown by the waves to the shore.

I once made a performance on floating. It was called “How to make your own dead sea”. Essentially, I had to put 23 kg of salt in my bathtub. Then the salt lifted me. How can salt change gravity? It’s a super complicated formula that was discovered by Archimedes. You first have to calculate your volume. Then you put the right amount of salt in your bathtub.

There are also large ice shelves in Antarctica → which are extensions of the ice sheet that are floating on the water. They can be several hundred meters thick.

As the world’s underbelly, full of unknown potential and forces. Floating: in the ocean is such an anti-gravitational experience. The older one gets, the ocean isn’t as attractive as it used to be, but as a counter to the force and effect of gravity, of aging and falling down in fact, the ocean still offers much. Though it’s more something of the past.

The water: there is velvety, soft + the salt content is high. So it’s ideal for floating. Different light conditions seem to lead to different floating conditions, strangely.
Pelicans fly overhead as one floats in this tropical seascape.

Around the Fiji islands, I travelled to many parts of the archipelago by small motor boat or canoe. Sometimes the water is so deep, that it’s bottomless. As one floats in such bottomless waters the sun shines on the body + all the while, your shadow disappears into the endless depths. This is quite an ontological and richly animated experience and beyond description once again.

Imagine that you are floating on the water's surface. While floating, and with your eyes closed, imagine you're listening to the songs of whales below you.