Breathing Together: A Love Story by Camila Morales and Dominka Ksel of the Buena Onda Collective embodies the symbiotic relationship between people and plants. The artists invite audiences to send loving energy to the algae growing within the sculpture.

For years, science has revealed the power of caring intention and its incredible impact on plant life. These findings and those demonstrated in Cleve Backster’s studies on plant consciousness, led to the realization that plants register stress and sensed thoughts of harm. The sculpture, formed with the letters that make up the word CARE asks viewers to rethink and expand their relationship to plant life and consider the work plants do for us and their need for our love and respect toward them.

The sculpture is located by the 96th Street entrance to Rockaway Beach until July 18th. Please look back again for upcoming workshops.

Thank you to NYC Parks for their support of this project.

June 26 - Join Buena Onda for a workshop and soft opening at 2pm
July 16 - closing event on Ocean Conservation
More details coming soon!

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Buena Onda Collective (Dominika Ksel and Camila A. Morales)

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Water Connectors

2021 Triennial Exhibition - October 31th (going with the rain date)

This installment of Works on Water’s three year triennial turns to concepts of long-term care for our urban waterfront ecology and reconsideration of water time-scales. WoWhaus Resident artists’ and Tending the Edge artists’ projects call attention to marginalized ecological community members, and to water’s cycles of time and being.

2020-2022 Triennial

We have adapted our 2020 Triennial into a three year exhibition! Despite the pandemic, we produced virtual projects and exhibitions, and are excited to continue this summer. Tending the Edge, a continuation of Walking the Edge (2020), kicks off our 2021 triennial summer with an incredible group of artists making work through the lens of the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan that invites NYC mayoral candidates and New Yorkers alike to see themselves as island inhabitants and flex their power to affect change.