In Water Lines, Seychellois-American artist Natasha Moustache asks these questions while looking towards the Seychelles as a site of layered spiritual inquiry. Through twenty photographs and a triptych printed on flowing fabric, Moustache invites us into an archipelagic way of seeing: each image a water line, each moment an invitation to float between grief and grace, body and land, past and future.

This archipelagic thinking also gestures outward, toward the Caribbean, as another island geography shaped by diaspora and colonialism. Though separated by vast waters (the Seychelles is an archipelago of 118 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean), the Seychelles and the Caribbean share legacies of forced migration, creolization, and cultural survival. In exploring these connections, Moustache draws on a lineage of thinkers who have imagined the island not as isolated, but as a node in a vast web of relations. The work echoes Édouard Glissant’s ideas of “archipelagic thinking” — but also reaches back to the writings of Suzanne Césaire, whose reflections on Caribbean nature, surrealism, and poetics shaped this discourse. However, her voice has too often been overshadowed. Water Lines honors this deeper, often hidden lineage, inviting new conversations and solidarities across these oceanic worlds.

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