The Aegean Sea is a womb to many rich myths and civilizations. There, the seawater is a share between two mainlands, and a myriad of islands. As migrations went through the sea during history, the folks had dropped pieces from their memoir on the journey to the opposite shore. The nature of the water has not been at ease as well; the deep base and very surface constantly activate new places; marks perceptions for humankind's nationalist manifests and fragilities.
On this ethnic and natural phenomena, the human-made borders between Greece and Turkey keep drawing divisions ignoring the ever-changing gestures of the sea; they try to set the rational rules and international laws for the coastal waters.
The Kardak / Ίμια islands are surprisingly small and insignificant territories compared to their crucial location between two countries. In recent decades, these contested islands became part of a military and political conflict and can not be approached or seen except the careful military surveillance by both sides.
I propose a link between Greece and Turkey, stepping on this intriguing land on the Aegean Sea. A series of floating chambers and surfaces, connected on nodes via linear elements, become a buffer place; it is as human-made and ephemeral as the constantly drawn borders on the Sea. On this link, the Sea is of both people, and braids are not there to divide but to connect. The lands are not for settlers, can not be consumed or exploited since every person is on a transitory experience of appreciation to bring the shared place variety of their own.
In the end, the socio-political split and its reflection on the maps as ambiguity is transformed into an intersection - a common-place of civic use accessed through the natural corridor between the islands.
