Waterlight
An audio and video-mapped sculpture that recomposes years of water footage into a slowly changing environment of reflection and drift.
Waterlight is an audio and video-mapped sculpture built from moving images of water in different physical states, filmed over several years in different locations. Projected across an arrangement of intertwined forms, these recordings are combined with sound to create an installation that is constantly shifting rather than fixed. The work brings together rain, waves, clouds, and flowing water as fragments of lived experience, turning familiar material into a layered and reflective environment.
Because the software continuously reshuffles image and sound, no sequence becomes definitive. The installation behaves like recollection: made from recurring fragments, recognisable yet never identical twice. That relationship between recording and rearrangement places Waterlight within May’s broader interest in how technology preserves experience by transforming it.
Additional notes
- Commissioned by Watermans Arts Centre for The River Weekender as part of Totally Thames.
- Built from water footage recorded over several years in multiple international locations.
- The order of the video and audio elements is randomly controlled by the software running the installation.
- Video documentation: Vimeo
- Soundtrack documentation: SoundCloud