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What's the one living thing we use daily and barely think about? AND that many of us take for granted? What connects us to every living thing? AND is 98 percent of you and me? It's water - and that is the focus of The Big Idea's second Digital Artist in Residence.

Artist Caroline Robinson is creating back to the source - hoki ki nga waiora, a collaborative inquiry into our relationship with water, and invites you to join the conversation.

"I sense an urgency to action a new way of being in relationship with our world. So let’s try something… a deeper way of seeing, thinking and being with water,” she says.

“back to the source hoki ki nga waiora is about people, water and the bonds between us.”

Working on the land, within urban environments and in communities, Caroline creates sculpture and land art that engage people in stories.  As The Big Idea Digital Artist in Residence, an initiative supported by Creative New Zealand, she starts the conversation by sharing her journey back to the waters of her birth.

For those keen to explore their own conversation with water, she has developed The Living Laboratory; which offers some suggestions for simple ‘experiments’ with water. Clayworker and waterman, Michael O'Donnell, is one of the first people to share some of his many conversations with water.

Now, Caroline invites you to share your water stories.

"They may be very ordinary stories. They be illuminating ‘ah-ha’ moments that were carried through water. Tell of experiences that have changed your relationship with water, or transformed your way of seeing life inside your (water) body, or on our (water) planet. Use text, photographs, artworks, video and/or sound."

Join the conversation: Comment and share your water experiences through back to the source on The Big Idea or facebook or twitter [#backtothesource].