Project: Future Arts Residency Program- Augment Seattle

Project Type: Large scale Public Digital Art (Augmented Reality)

Location: Seattle

Team: Future Arts | Houdini Interactive

Year: 2021- Ongoing

This large-scale augmented reality installation reimagines the concept of “parasitic architecture” by offering a counter-narrative: a healing waterfall that attaches not to extract, but to restore. Installed on the façade of a downtown Seattle building, the piece transforms the concept of a traditional African botanical healing bath into a digital waterfall—where medicinal, spiritual, and ancestral plants cascade through flowing water in an augmented reality environment.

As lead artist and creative director, I developed the conceptual framework and collaborated with Houdini Interactive to bring the AR experience to life. The work unfolds on the unceded land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot peoples, and is rooted in a deep acknowledgment of the systems that have buried both natural and cultural memory.

The waterfall becomes a portal—summoning ancestral wisdom, collective imagination, and ecological reciprocity. It invites viewers into an Afrocentric rite of healing: a quiet act of resistance that gestures toward repair. Through this layering of time, plants, and spirit, Parasitic Healing Bath reclaims space for healing and reimagines our relationship with land and memory.