We are mayfield and camilo, two wild, magical and adventurous beings.
We are artists, somatic workers, improvisers, and environmental activists devoted to cultivate our relationship with water, one another, and the living world.
Our work lives where art, ecology, spirituality, science, and community meet.
mayfield is from turtle island and was born in Connecticut near the Atlantic Ocean, and camilo was born in Colombia near the Pacific Ocean. We are currently based in Rockaway Beach, New York, by the Atlantic Ocean.
We met in 2022 dancing with a spiritual and creative purpose. Our journey together with the ocean began with a deep connection with a sperm whale that we found stranded in Rockaway Beach, NY. That meeting changed us.
Part of us died with her. She opened our hearts and reminded us the feeling of being one with life and the importances of moving together.
Oceanicos emerged as a practice of care and remembering. A way of exploring water as a living intelligence, the ocean as teacher, and art as a practice of relationship.
For us, the ecological crisis is also a crisis of relationship.
What becomes possible when we remember that we belong to the same living system?
Through performances, workshops, immersive installations, and community gatherings, we invite individuals and collectives to experience water as a reflection of the body and the mind.
We explore the relationships between humans and more-than-humans, environments, and social systems—cultivating sensitivity, joyful hope, and transformation.
We create spaces where gathering becomes an ecological practice, collective imagination becomes a form of activism, and joy becomes an expression of resilience.
Oceanicos exists as a space for collective dreaming, creative action and ecological intimacy.
The ocean teaches us that every current exists because of another current.
That no wave moves alone.
That all life is sustained through relationship.
We return to the water again and again because it reminds us of something we already know, but often forget:
we belong.
The ocean
A source of inspiration, abundance and wisdom
A space of presence and connection
A place where the sounds of waves decompose stress and calm the nervous system.
The ocean raises the energetic frequency on this planet,
it is a cosmic connection where our internal waters are moved by the same moon.
The ocean breathes life into all beings
we are the ocean,
we are nature,