Flying rivers are vast, invisible “streams” of water vapor that stretch for hundreds of kilometers. These vapor bands are born from the evaporation and transpiration* of trees in rainforests, transporting huge amounts of moisture from tropical regions to cooler latitudes. When an atmospheric river reaches the coast and climbs a mountain, the air cools, condenses, and releases its water vapor in the form of heavy rain or snow.When it rains here, we find it hard to imagine that the reason for this is trees located on the other side of the Earth. In our imagination, rain is a phenomenon formed in nearby latitudes with a guaranteed occurrence, but it turns out to be a complex network of events and conditions that go beyond the local character given to it.
The works are markers tracing the long journey of water “exhaled” by rainforests and “inhaled” by the forests around us. Simultaneously poetic and apocalyptic, they are like a red light on the ease with which we destroy some of our most important resources for a good life and cause events that turn into severe social conflicts.
Photo credits: Bozhana Dimitrova