If water flows through our lives each day, how does it reflect the way we live?

Follow the Flow (2024–2025) is an ongoing project by io wu, consisting of two hand-bound bilingual books — Follow the Flow and Let It Go — that together explore how water connects geography, culture, and emotion.

Water is not only a resource but also a mirror of how people live, think, and remember. Through field research in Asia and Europe, io wu traces the social, philosophical, and spiritual meanings of water across different landscapes — from Himalayan rivers to the reclaimed seas of the Netherlands.

The project reflects on how water reveals human perspectives shaped by geography: how communities living close to rivers or seas develop distinct relationships with flow, scarcity, and renewal.

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