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].

Inhale...
Hold...

(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...

>> ready to dive <<