Priti Pandurangan
Sparks

October 17, 2025

Thirst ↗

Events /
  • Archives ·
  • Freshwater ·
  • Visualisations

Spent a quiet evening at the Wellcome Collection. Thirst is an exhibition that traces our relationship with freshwater through history, conflict, climate and care.

I got a closer look at the map of Cholera distribution during the last outbreak in London (1866). Saw a ton of other early visualisation works. Below are a few: the earliest account of war for water in a cuneiform tablet, early meteorological studies, albeit for colonial extraction, and an ancient decorated drain cover.