wings walking water
a project, a practice, an ongoing story by Baco Ohama
For a long time I have had an interest in language; in what gets carried and conveyed, hidden and revealed, through one’s use of language; and in what gets discovered and understood when working with language as one aspect of an artistic practice. I am interested in stories that aren’t necessarily narratives told in one stretch, from beginning to end. My interest is in building, telling, and sharing stories in ways that might be experienced through glimmers and bits or felt in the relational spaces between locations and generations, between the dreams of night and the sensory experiences of day, between the uncanny and the mundane, and between the spoken and heard.
wings walking water is a project and practice that plays in the osmotic space of both the known and unknown and tends to flow backwards and forward in time, moving from location to location, site to site, even as I try to live and work mindful of each present moment and experience . . .
some recent works
still
still is a bookwork project that I’ve been working on for the past few years. While I envisioned this piece as a gathering, the various images, poems and texts don’t appear chronologically. When context shifts, often so does meaning. And I was interested in how the various pieces related and played off each other across spines, over pages and between the covers of this bookwork … how proximity, positioning and layering as well, might also shift a reading.
By the end of December 2025, I held the first printed and hand bound copy of still in my hands.
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still, not still
still, not still is a project that I work on the past few years (November 2023 — November 2025).
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