Daniel Lima

"flood as people

people as flood"

Architects and engineers think the city’s future guided by capital. Solid plans for a floating city. The dikes hold the people’s pressure on the other side of the sea, far from hearts and minds. Official mills expel the rejected to the city’s margins. Remote districts, so far off that they’re no longer part of the city.

How many dikes, canals and mills will they build not to get wet?

A solid ground never existed.

But the water is already there.

Dikes will break.

Slowly water drops travel through invisible cracks.

The pieces will split.

And the whole machinery will fail.

And the whole barbarise will win.

And so we will return to where we came from.

Bringing back the present.

All will be water again.

Water.