57 (2/2020), pp. 39–54 The Polish Journal DOI: 10.19205/57.20.2 of Aesthetics Polina Golovátina-Mora * Sprinkles of an Agate Sea-Wave— Multispecies Storying as Creating with Matter Abstract This article employs diffractive research strategies such as poetic inquiry, storying and speculative fabulation (Haraway 2013) to explore the interplay, or intra-action (Barad 2007), of memories, nostalgias, and material s torie d with two Instagram channels. The article does not compare these elements, but sees them as parts of a d i s t r i b- u t e d k n o w l e d g e (King 2011). Informed by Deleuzo-Guattarian nomadic thought and feminist new materialism, the article suggests looking at artwork and crafts as p e r f o r m a t i v i t y (Barad 2007), n e t w o r k e d r e e n a c t m e n t (King 2011) and s p e c u l a t i v e f a b u l a t i o n (Haraway 2013). The article itself takes shape in multispecies entanglements as ways of engaging with vibrant matter. Keywords Diffraction, Distributed Knowledge, Networked Reenactment, Speculative Fabulation, Stonework The Workroom The scent of the northern sea is as sweet and refreshing as a baby’s breath; the motion of its waves is erratic yet purposeful, like dogs’ frolicking. Its light is opal and amber on sunny days, and like moonstone and labradorite on grey ones. I see it as transparent and airy. A friend of mine says it is oily. It is the same, yet different in every moment of its re-enactment/co- creation of our entangled realities, known or imagined with multiple ever- changing multispecies participants. The sea never stays in one place. In the ..................................... ss * Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia Email: polina.golovatina@upb.edu.co