Aquaphobia

Aquaphobia is a short, first-person poetic artwork about the connection between inner psychological landscapes and outside ecosystems. Starting in the subterranean mud tunnels of Redhook, Brooklyn, you follow a morphing water microbe through roots, water, plants and sub-city infrastructure. The microbe recites a poem about a troubled break-up between itself and you.

The work links fear of water to humanity’s relationship with rising sea levels and the current ecological situation. Originally made in VR in 2017, Aquaphobia was released in 2023 as a first-person poetic experience and is the first part of a series of published works by Jakob Kudsk Steensen.