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 had been hovering in my thoughts for many years but it wasn’t until sometime in 2022 that I started to physically work on some early formats and drafts.
I was curious about how my process might intersect and mingle with memory, research and the challenges and shifting circumstances of my daily life.
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 worked on from November 2023 to November 2025.
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