Fleeting Archive is an interactive painting that "records" the behaviors of individual Al Aqah beach waves through lines: the height of the lines corresponds to the wave's length in sound and the distance between two lines - two wave recordings - corresponds to the time difference between the waves' crashes. 

One can listen to an audio recording of those beach waves while touching their corresponding recordings on the painting. The painting acts as a form of archiving the beach waves and their distinct and group behaviors that is different from oceanographic, photographic, or videographic methods of archiving.The painting is paired with a strongly underlit video of the waves, where their 'beauty' is stripped away and only their patterns and behaviors are preserved through their seafoam and sounds. This piece challenges the inevitable, important, but also commodifying, visual aestheticization, and further generalization of the non-human in photographic and videographic archives. Through this archival form - the painting -, the fleeting, ever-changing waves no longer blend into each other and become toned out into one, but instead, the nuanced differences, similarities, inconsistencies, and 'imperfections' between every distinct wave is revealed.  

Locate: Building C3, Ground Floor, Main Lobby near the Cube