Project: Future Arts Residency Program- Augment Seattle

Medium: Large scale Public Digital Art (Augmented Reality)

Location: Seattle

Team: Future Arts | Houdini Interactive | Bri Castilleja (Indigenous Ethnobotanist & artist)

Year: 2021- Ongoing

Parasitic Healing Bath is a large-scale augmented reality installation that reimagines “parasitic architecture” through a counter narrative. A waterfall attaches not to extract, but to restore healing. Drawing from African botanical healing baths, medicinal and spiritual plants move through the waterfall, each marked with symbols that carry their healing power. As the water reaches the street, it flows by a meadow of native plants, honoring these lands of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot peoples.

Designed as a healing portal, it’s an invitation for people to slow down and feel held by water, plants, and softness in the city. Where colonial legacies and concrete have buried nature and cultural memories, this work brings them back to the surface. Rooted in Afrofuturism, it draws from African ancestral knowledge and the technology of augmented reality to imagine new possibilities for healing and connection, grounded in Black joy and liberation.