The Tides of Our Tears are a series of seven augmented reality poems floating along the Thames riverside path, developed in collaboration with Invisible Dust.

Set against the river’s dramatic tides, which rise up as much as seven meters, the poems act as a reminder of turbulent ecological and economic systems that swivel around us in today’s time; amplifying the river’s mood in surges.The river has been a site of trade, capital, navigation—the waters and debris carries history and memory that surfaces and vanishes like the tides in these poems.

Created in dialogue with UCL and The Royal Docks, the signage echoes the river’s salt in body’s tears. The work can be viewed by scanning QR codes, which reveal the poems as one walks by the riverside; opening a doorway into what is seen and submerged.