The reflection that Milkywave wants to promote concerns Goal 14 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development signed in September 2015 by the governments of the ONU member countries, which focuses on the protection and conservation of the seas and oceans, against exploitation and man's aggressive impact on a resource: water.
The focus is also on the conservation of marine ecosystems such as corals, the habitat of a quarter of the animal and plant species that inhabit the seas, denouncing the process of destruction of coral reefs caused by rising ocean temperatures. Vast areas of coral reefs are annihilated and die losing their pigmentation, from colorful beds they turn into funeral expanses, like white carpets on the seafloor.
The water becomes the central ingredient in Milkywave, the pivotal principle of a bond of dependence between man and his constituent elements, a primordial liquid from which we all derive, understood as the fluid of life and nutrition of every species.
The sea and the ocean correspond to a vital breath, a milky dream like strands of luminous plankton that governs ecosystems and biodiversity; it is the same water that flows through our bodies, the liquid from which we are born and of which we are constituted, configuring itself as origin and source, a universal regulator that demands our attention today.
Milkywave seeks the visual and physical involvement of the viewer, who, wearing an Oculu Quest 2 visor, will be overlooked by a virtual self-illuminated sea surface: the glow of the turquoise water will include the viewer in its very essence, flipping over into a space where the above and the below are blurred as in a dream, as in a metaphysical space, as if swept by a sea wave. Recreating a dreamlike dimension, from the idyllic spectacularization of an aquatic dream, Milkywave offers a total interpenetration of the two realities, physical and virtual, through the creation of carpets of white corals designed to simulate the seabed: the insertion of such elements made by 3D printer with recycled PET filaments, makes the experience even more immersive since the same will be visible even in Virtual Reality.
At the same time Milkywave, being a virtual work, can be enjoyed not only with a viewer but also through any electronic device equipped with a screen through the help of Augmented Reality.
