Overflow

ART // CLIMATE CHANGE

Artworks

The Overflow series is a memorial to the lives marked by floods in different disasters around the world. Like each raindrop that eventually overflowed streets, dams and rivers, each drip of glue represents one of the lives lost in each disaster. Together they form an accumulated web of collective trauma. The material is lightly transparent, like the lingering traces of impact the disaster imprinted upon its victims. Each drip carries the weight of an individual soul: a moment suspended, a life interrupted, solidifying the permanent effect on memory. The work transforms statistics into a physical manifestation, visualizing how the disaster overflowed every boundary, every body, and every system that was meant to contain it.

Using melted glue, I created a wall of drips frozen in time. The drips symbolize each raindrop that slowly but surely contributed to the eventual overflow of the Guaíba river; they appear to be so small and insignificant, yet left a permanent impact. They start out liquid, flowing, malleable; yet once they've settled in their place, their presence is solid and unmoving.

Exploring how to visualize the idea of slow-moving time, creeping patiently towards a crescendo. This is a metaphor for all the small actions that contributed to the floods over many years: scientific research & warnings of escalating climate change ignored; funds allocated to flood prevention maintenance that were neglected & untouched; political decisions made to encourage agricultural development that deteriorated the land. Each one, a step towards the inevitable destruction.

Overflow: Pakistan, 1037

(2026)

Glue

1037 drops for the 1037 lives lost in the Pakistan 2025 floods affecting the regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Azad Kashmir.