Conceived as an engineering apparatus whose function is to evoke (a figure of drainage), Possessing Nature presents itself as a monumental sculpture, a hydraulic system, a resonance chamber, a mirror and a canal. As a hydraulic system, it uses the pressure of the water drawn from the 'Darsena Grande' lagoon -conditioned as militar water- to generate a drainage system.

City of Canals, City of Drains, Mexico and Venice share and yet differ from their own condition as amphibious cities. Their urbanization histories and mutation rhythms vary but there is also a ‘memory’ that connects them: the historical relations between "power and water". Thus, Possessing Nature is a wound, a duct, a ditch: a drainage system placed in the military hear of a city prostrate in water.