˚₊‧꒰ა claim to sink ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

what if i can only heal through my digital persona?
what if we embeded our trauma into our digital self and heal through them?
what if I had the chance to let my hyperreal version heal me through a device that only reaches me through my them?

One of the most recurrent thoughts I had while dealing with trauma and ptsd, was fantasizing about having a secondary brain, one that was fit to heal, one ready to move on.

Claim to sink is a speculative project about the possibility of copying your online persona into a physical world,
an hyperreal version of yourself that can go through emotional labor and that what you cannot upfront in reality.

Using social media as a research ground and trauma as a topic, *claim to sink* is born from the blur between yourself and your online persona, and the holistic mystic content that claims healing with frequencies sent to you because the algorithm chose you to be cured.

Content creators as fortune tellers and witches you can paypal for spells, the internet and social media platforms are a whimsical plane that offers answers to problems that a deficient capitalist system isn’t capable to take care of; you will end up deep into a loop of intrusive thoughts, obsessively checking social media and doom scrolling, caught in a net that promises a quiet mind.
Asmr, sand being cut by sharp knives, running water and whispering voices are a prayer and a chant, as mermaids luring sailors into the sea, this digital pastel pink noises become a relief for the ones in pain.

Sinking somewhere else while I was in my bed, my head deep in the pillow and the screen of my smartphone irradiating content into me, if I interacted with them once, i could have good luck, if I followed them I would have peace, If I commented on their posts I would had everything I wanted.
If I claimed their sound I would be saved.

Inspired by sensory deprivation tanks and social media witchcraft, this devices serves as a head sized tank where a copy of yourself can sink while listening to a series of affirmations that will cure you if you let yourself sink in.