about LIVING WATER: Birrarung/Yarra speaks is a public artwork created by artist Annique Goldenberg, installed in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. It is the second in a planned series of installations of handmade water-papers, where a site-specific sheet of paper is created through a participatory process with a local community, a body of water, and the artist. Stories about these waters and their communities emerge from the act of making, offering participants and viewers an opportunity to experience a multisensorial connection to environment. The materiality of the paper—made from participants’ clothing and texts, local plant fibres, and water from the site—adds another layer of meaning and memory to the work. Water is used both literally and metaphorically as a creative tool to enable physical and emotional self-awareness about how we interact with and care about our immediate surroundings. The work asks can an immersive, creative experience in the local environment be extended to stimulate awareness about interconnection and ecological impact on the global environment? Can this felt experience encourage an enhanced sense of care and connection?​