Amniotic Black Sea explores how we are born into a world marked by trauma, and whether the “fluids of life” — from amnion to sea water — can recover after violence. The artist merges NASA satellite imagery of the Black Sea and Crimea (a territory under occupation) with medical scans, creating a visual parallel between the body of the Earth and the human body.

The diptych consists of two media images. The first is an X-ray of the artist’s father’s inflamed lungs, integrated with a satellite image of Crimea taken in July; the frame is intentionally left “raw,” without post-processing, to preserve its documentary nature. The second is a collage of satellite images of Crimea from July and early August, composed in the shape of an ultrasound with minimal AI intervention. The formal resemblance between lung tissue and the sea surface emphasizes the idea that the sea and the body are living systems — capable of illness, aging, and trauma.

The video component interlaces visual layers with two sound sources: recordings from NASA satellites and human heartbeats.

The work questions what it means to be born into a wounded world, the possibility of healing the Earth, and the limits of diagnosis: when X-ray and ultrasound become a universal language, the refusal to aestheticize transforms the installation into a direct document of the condition of two organisms — human and planetary.