Our joint project about interface and water, named "How can we transform wine into water" evolved and deepened during this residency, with Marta's constant support.

Water is the interface that allows communication inside living bodies and outside. But the conventional Western view of water does not recognize this aspect. As women from a western culture, we must rewrite the paternalist Christian cultural tales of the Last Supper- in which the wine is a symbol of human interconnection with God- and Christ's baptism to present our stories based on a holistic and sympoietic togetherness mediated by water. For that, we decided to perform a Baptism in the name of the River Mira -a pre-Christian Lusitanian God-and a Dinner where we symbolically transform wine into water. During this Dinner, we wear the white clothes we put on during the baptism. The evidence of our holobiontic nature hides on our clothes, where we wrote messages such as: "This is my waterbody, and my blood is water". This message is invisible when we inoculate the fabric. However, the growing microbial colonies from our microbiota gradually reveal it. During the exhibition of this work at the Ectopia gallery in Lisbon, we will show our clothes covered by the microorganisms' cultures (dead) and videos: the baptism, the Dinner, our everyday swims. Glass columns, with the Mira River subsoil and microorganisms, and another one with patches of my dermal cultures, show our communication/conversation with the river Mira at microscopic and macroscopic scales.