Photo © Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Azores 2025

Where voices ripple
against the silence of the world.

In the tangle of lifelines,
forming the earth.

In the rings,
on the surface of the water,

the mountain speaks to the ocean –
draw the islands to you! 

We are surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, but the Earth itself is also, in a way, an island surrounded by an ocean universe. Learning to live well on islands is a microcosm, learning to live well everywhere. At the end of the day, each of us, regardless of our origin or nationality, is from this planet. As a community of Earth, we should all ensure that a balance is struck between all humans and all more-than-humans and the resources of our planet.

Photo © Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Azores Atlantic Ocean 2024

Everything, including this text, is created together with the place and is not separated from the place for a single moment. The ocean, is the author of it, and introduces us into important relationships of care and responsibility for each other and for the diverse beings and beings that make up the ocean.

Our upcoming voyage, which we will undertake in mid-June 2025 on the Risho Maru, will symbolically lead to home. To Pico Island, located in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. For this voyage, we have chosen the auspicious name: Draw the island closer to you.

Drawing © Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Azores 2025

Since each voyage is a unique story that is also a separate space and generates a certain spectrum of knowledge, we decided to name each voyage we made on the Risho Maru somehow or to unify it using the same name. We see storytelling and stories above all, as an interactive connection that is never separate from the place. Stories are an instrument of belonging at the same time as our theory, and our theory is constructed through embodied practice across different scales. We tell stories because they teach us how to live together.

We’re the story this country keeps telling –
flowing connection.

Stories are everywhere. They lurk at us in unlikely places, forming and growing. Like children connecting us to countless worlds. They make us laugh. They make us cry. They make us human.

As we sail with two children for whom sailing is primarily a great adventure and for us not only an adventure, but also a great challenge to verify the extent to which it is possible to continue to expand and build our concept of Oceanic school and seascape epistemology right in the ocean environment. To what extent is it possible to apply modes of perception in the ocean landscape and navigation itself. How is it possible to learn directly from the environment of the ocean and with the ocean, and how do we share that knowledge and continue to apply it to our lives?

Illustration © Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Azores 2025

Our voyage begins in the North of Italy. We’re going up the Fiume Stella. We will then sail across the Adriatic, Ionian, Tyrrhenian, Mediterranean, Alboran Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. In the Atlantic Ocean at approximately 37° 6.83’N, 8° 31.30’W, we would like to sail across the Atlantic Ocean towards Santa Maria Island or directly to Pico Island in the Azores archipelago. By a rough estimate, we should swim just over 3,500 nautical miles. We estimate the journey to be one month, but it all depends on the weather conditions.

We will report details of our trip via our Instagram or here on the Risho Maru website in the News section.