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problem
• Access to Clean Drinking Water: In India, especially urban areas like Delhi, access to safe drinking water remains a critical issue. Contaminated tap water and unreliable infrastructure make daily hydration a health risk. • Overlooked Resource: Despite being the most fundamental element for human life, water is often taken for granted, even as its quality and accessibility deteriorate. • Disconnection from Source: Urban environments create a gap between people and the origins of what they consume, including water. Its energy, purity, and natural balance are often lost in industrial systems. • Lack of Sensory Engagement: Water is consumed passively. There’s little public awareness or interaction with the processes behind purification or enhancement.
solution
• Purification Through Technology: Tap water is made safe using a DIY system of Reverse Osmosis and UV filtration. • Vitalization Through Nature: Herbal and mineral additives are introduced, enhancing both the taste and energetic quality of the water. • Interactive Experience: The public is invited to taste and customize their water, encouraging direct engagement with the idea of water as both nourishment and ritual. • Materiality and Sound: Built using copper, iron, wood, and glass, the installation physically embodies the water cycle. Underwater microphones and handmade speakers turn the system into a sonic experience. • Local Craft and Sustainability: Designed in collaboration with local artisans and built with accessible materials, the project embraces a low-tech, resource-conscious approach. • Art as Infrastructure: Rather than just illustrating the water crisis, RESONANCE provides a working model - functional, poetic, and replicable.
Three Months in Delhi: Building Resonance
I arrived in Delhi during the dry, dust-hazed transition between seasons, three months that would immerse me in the contradictions of a city where water is both sacred and scarce.
The invitation came from artist and chef Mia Morikawa, who was developing a project for the Food Residency at Khoj. We had a vision: to explore nourishment not only through food, but through water, the most essential ingredient of all. Together we began tracing water’s presence in the daily life of the city.
We wandered through temples, public wells, kitchens, and conversations. We visited the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, where the strange and beautiful history of sanitation unfolded. We met water policy experts, sanitation engineers, and local tinkerers. In this patchwork of encounters, a question emerged:
What if people could reconnect with water, not just as a utility, but as something they could feel, craft, and listen to?
Together, we began creating RESONANCE.
Built with locally sourced materials - copper, iron, glass, rubber, wood - we designed a closed-loop water purification system using reverse osmosis and UV filtration. But the goal wasn’t just clean water. It was vitalized water - infused with local herbs, minerals, and trace elements. Visitors could create their own “water recipes,” turning the act of drinking into a personal ritual.
We also brought sound into the system. Hydrophones captured the internal rhythms of water, and DIY speakers made the installation hum, gurgle, and sing. RESONANCE became a living organism.
Mia’s approach to ritual, flavor, and nourishment infused every aspect of the work. Her culinary perspective grounded the project in sensory exploration, inviting people to experience water the way they might experience a dish: as something crafted, shared, and felt.
Dozens of people passed through the space - blending herbs, recalling memories of rivers and wells, realizing the invisible infrastructure behind a glass of water. RESONANCE didn’t just respond to India’s water crisis. It proposed a different relationship with water altogether - one based on intimacy, participation, and resonance.
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