Tides of Our Tears
Shown at: Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival, Richmond, United Kingdom (2025) |Sea Change: New climate stories for the Royal Docks by Invisible Dust‘, Public intervention at Royal Docks & Thames Barrier Park, London (2023)

7 augmented reality poems, QR Codes

The Tides of Our Tears unfolds as seven augmented reality poems placed along the Thames path from Richmond Bridge to Eel Pie Island. Rising from the river’s surges—up to seven metres high and increasingly volatile in the wake of climate change—the poems echo the unstable rhythms of our ecological and economic present.

The Thames, once a conduit of trade, capital, and navigation, becomes a carrier of memory and debris. Here, its tides speak in verse, appearing and dissolving like histories surfacing in water.

Developed with Invisible Dust, in conversation with scientists from UCL and The Royal Docks, the work turns QR codes into thresholds. Each scan releases a poem that lingers between the salt of the river and the salt of tears, inviting a walk that is both along the riverbank and within its currents.