WATER SPECIMEN ARCHIVE is a sensory installation that explores how care and emotion circulate through human relationships with water. Drawing from an archive of 3,000 water photographs, the project translates memory, color, and material experiments into visual and tactile narratives of emotional exchange between self and environment.

Ayano Iwasaki is a transdisciplinary designer from Japan. Working across design research, ethnography, and thinking-through-making, her practice explores mental health through sensory and relational experiences. She focuses on the invisible emotional labor surrounding care, using artifact-based methods to translate personal and collective experiences into reflective forms.