What representations for the Ocean?

The conceptualisation of the Ocean as a resource and as a navigable surface, as old as it is persistent, is based on a utility relationship between humans on the one hand and a space, a territory, on the other. It is debatable if we are trying to account for a living relationship—understood as symbiotic—with the Ocean. It excludes the possibility of empathy with those who inhabit it: animals, plants, minerals, plastics, ecosystems, and so on. By seeking out the conceptualisations that support representations of those who populate the Ocean, the challenge is to identify what in the history of humans has led them to invisibilise entities that are essential to the survival of the biosphere.