Three offerings to the Hudson River, July 2026, in collaboration with Liam Yun Davidson


In the summer of 2026, I was given an opportunity to intimately immerse myself in the tidal rhythm of the Lower Hudson River, a 153-mile estuary with a moving salt front that connects to the Atlantic Ocean. Its brackish water swells up on the shores of the river twice each day, reminding us of the connections between the land, the water, and the sky. Or how water circulates through different forms of bodies and expressions of weather in a cyclical dance.

By the third week, I could feel the changes within me—a gradual dissolution of nouns and objects and remembering of wordless movements and ritualistic repetitions. I decided to dedicate three acts to the river as offerings to her wants and desires. Instead of assuming the river as a place that passively receives things, people, and actions, I wanted to remember her as an agentic entity with power and dreams. Each act was accompanied by a sculpture that resembles fishing gear or navigation markers (trawl net, fishing rod, and buoy), while simultaneously collapsing their intended purposes. 


This work was created during the Parent Artist Residency at the Pocantico Center by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation.

First and fifth photos by Keren Anavy