A steel face uses calcium chloride to collect moisture from the surrounding

air and channels the resulting water into a commercially available PET

bottle.The work combines the historical figure of the gargoyle with the idea of

technological water harvesting. While gargoyles were originally designed

to divert rainwater away from buildings, the sculpture appears here as a

device for extracting water from the atmosphere. In doing so, it evokes the

notion of a simple technical response to resource scarcity without offering

an actual solution.Water accumulates slowly over the course of the installation. The PET

bottle functions simultaneously as container, consumer product, and

measure of the process. Between an archaic architectural form and an

everyday object, a field of tension emerges in which water appears at once

as a resource, a commodity, and a fundamental condition of human life.

A steel face uses calcium chloride to collect moisture from the surrounding

air and channels the resulting water into a commercially available PET

bottle.The work combines the historical figure of the gargoyle with the idea of

technological water harvesting. While gargoyles were originally designed

to divert rainwater away from buildings, the sculpture appears here as a

device for extracting water from the atmosphere. In doing so, it evokes the

notion of a simple technical response to resource scarcity without offering

an actual solution.Water accumulates slowly over the course of the installation. The PET

bottle functions simultaneously as container, consumer product, and

measure of the process. Between an archaic architectural form and an

everyday object, a field of tension emerges in which water appears at once

as a resource, a commodity, and a fundamental condition of human life.