Odine is not some mythical beast—it is water incarnate, a tragic reflection of our polluted world. Once a source of life and purity, water has become something unrecognizable, bloated and disfigured by the waste we cast into it. As the pollution grows, so does the creature. The monster, in our work, is conscious of this danger. It understands that it cannot return to the waters from which it came without being further poisoned. Odine values the cleanliness of its origin, but that care leaves it homeless, trapped between the rising tides and the polluted ground. The materials it gathers—plastics, receipts, the waste of human consumption—are not just its shelter, but a reflection of humanity’s insatiable greed and carelessness.

In Berkeley, where poor water management runs amuck, this video art piece specifically criticizes the crumbling infrastructures beneath the earth and the pollutants hidden in our environment that have come about due to climate change. Through the actual discarded and found debris of Berkeley, Odine learns about the human condition. Trashed mail packages, wrappers, fragments of a world obsessed with consumption, tell a story of sins that have seeped deep into the earth and into the water. These sins are unsustainable.

Odine, forgetting its purity, now suffocates under the weight of our neglect. Our work asks us to confront the monster we’ve created—one born from invisible infrastructures, contaminated groundwater, and a world that is slowly drowning in its own waste. The footage, documenting sites of water throughout Berkeley and Oakland like leaky water faucets and storm drains, forces us to reckon with the fragile boundaries between human existence and the natural world. This is a story about transformation—of the environment, of our cities, of ourselves. Odine is not a supernatural being, but a reflection of what we’ve become.