I have been thinking about water as a theme for almost 10 years now. Looking at the various ways water moves and exists on the planet and telling stories “tracing water” so to speak through its various states. We see airborne water falling to land, becoming glaciers, becoming rivers, emptying into oceans, moving into and out of our bodies, through plants and cells. What does water look like when there is no water? During 2016/17, I did a number of artists residencies in Europe and Morocco, tracing water. I started in Cork Ireland, trying to create both sonic and visual works in collaboration with Karen Power. This led me to seek water in the remote Moroccan desert (near the Algerian border), in France and then I spent 2 months in southern Spain, studying the drawings left by the tides. Tales of the Tidelines was a site specific body of work I made and exhibited in Spain, gave rise to the next exhibition Catch of the Day, in Mazatlan, Mexico, which in turn has inspired the idea for Song of the Whale.