Three States of Water explores the reparative and knowledge-producing capacities of sound. Incorporating sounds of water in various state changes, the work metaphorically alludes to the melting, liquefaction, and sublimation of the postcolonial nation-state. Such fluidity further points to queer, non-statist possibilities that destabilize structures of national, gender, sexual, and ethnic identification. Ifekoya's immersive sound score also includes speeches by Tafawa Balewa, Yoruba polyrhythmic drumming, and the artist's spoken narrations on healing and self-knowing. The speakers are also made from dried calabash gourds.As vessel forms, calabash gourds also embody indigenous conceptions of the person as an open receptacle as opposed to a unitary, enclosed, biologically determined entity.