The premodern archives of the islands known today as "the Philippines",
swim in the archipelagic seas, connected by wires & whispers...
Translating archival texts back into the virtual vernacular,
a marine sanctuary guardian guides the descent.
Before diving this site of sunken recollections,
BREATHE...
Inhale through your mouth, filling your chest.
Hold [contradictions]
Hold [uncertainty]
Exhale, the unknown.
Inhale through your mouth, filling your chest, expanding your lungs sideways.
Hold [the edge]
Hold [the limit]
Hold [the perimeter]
Exhale, the inner, out.
Inhale through your mouth, filling your chest, expanding your lungs sideways, hitting your diaphragm.
Hold [memories]
Hold [archives]
Hold [traditions]
Hold [texts]
Exhale [spacebar].
Inhale through your mouth, filling your chest, expanding your lungs sideways, hitting your diaphragm.
Hold
Hold.
Hold..
Hold...
Hold [nothing]
Exhale [everything].
(In the following page, wait for the background video to load.
Once it appears, click the background to begin the sound & start the dive.
Every emergent element - from text to image - is a reference hyperlink,
which will open in a new tab, if clicked & engaged with.)
((( The undersea is a repository of dense data and submerged memories.
Freediving demands us not to speed up, but to slow down in space-time.
In order to safely descend, we must equalize the pressure building within us.
To access depth requires a meditative mind and embodied presence.
As you scroll-dive, pause & click links to equalize, relieving the tension.
May the spirits guide you back - if not to the surface, to the divine (re)source. )))
Exhale...
Inhale...
Hold...