A flood is intrinsically another form of water flow, beset by an extractive1 ideology and cast as a disaster against the fortunes of (dry) land. If we were to recognize all lands as wet, then a flood is neither a disaster nor a fortune but a natural intervention built into the rhythms of our world; a resetting of order. How we qualify and judge the nature of a flood is largely contingent on our cosmology. However, it can be stated that floods are naturally opposed to segregation; a flood is a rebellion, a resistance to a way of life in disharmony with the rhythms of space and life. Left unchecked, segregation will eventually worsen the conditions of life in one space—referred to by humans as a wasteland—while overflowing the other, the closed-off, non-flowing wetland—a deadland, for all intents and purposes.2

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Floods bring opportunities to recover, reconstruct, and recreate that which is lost. Perhaps starting from a small drip, the water begins to gather speed and volume in a short time before turning into a flood. A wetland dreams of flooding; a wasteland yearns to be flooded.3 With this, the cycle of life becomes complete: a world of wetlands transformed into dry-and-wet lands by processes of water flow, drainage, and segregation. Eventually, the world is flooded and returns to the holistic wetland, ready to engage with life.