This panel traces a story between Taal in the Philippines and Haruna in Japan—volcanic lakes shaped into quiet basins. At the top, Taal evokes the time when seawater once flowed freely before the 1754 eruption sealed its mouth, marked by a resting figure of Lakan. Hybrid boats and fish-creatures drift across fissures, while netted pens teem with catch, unaware of the volcano’s lingering breath.

Threaded vents carry magma-lines into Nakanojo’s geothermal springs, where fish-like beings play—one in an onsen towel, another listening through headphones. Tourist boats drift across Lake Haruna, a serene caldera atop volcanic pressure. Eruption and stillness, fire and water, circulate rhythmically across archipelagos and generations.

Embroidered Texts:
● The lake remembers what the mountain forgot.
● Threadlines pulse below the surface.
● Archipelagic time does not flow—it rings.
● Ancestral waters hold volcanic breath.
● Sa lawa, humimlay ang alaala ng apoy. (In the lake, the memory of fire rests.)
● 火と水の記憶 (Memory of fire and water)
● 噴火のうた (Song of the eruption)
● 深く眠る声 (The voice that sleeps deep)
● ᜊᜓᜎ᜔ᜃᜅ᜔ ᜁᜈ (Bulkang Ina/ Mother Volcano)

Collaborators in Hand Embroidery: Marilyn Atienza, Marissa Florendo, Jennifer Gumapac, Rhosenie Seloza, Charisse Villostas, Hyacinth Villostas (Taal, Batangas).