A Memory of Clean Water

Castle Creek, Utah • 1985

The most striking physical presence in the show… It is a death mask of Castle Creek, which dried up after the construction of an upstream dam. Splotches of red and blue mineral pigments decorate the surface of the paper, which is otherwise colored by the dust of the riverbed and embedded with bits of grass and stone.

—Alex A. Jones, The Brooklyn Rail

 

One day, after hours of crouching over the riverbed, I stood to stretch my back and looked up. The sky was turning deep indigo and the stars of the Milky Way were beginning to appear, forming a pattern that resembled the pattern of the stones in the riverbed below. I thought, “The whole world is patterned by water, yet I know nothing about water.” At this moment, I knew I had to continue along my path in learning more about water.

Exhibitions


Everhart Museum • 1986-1991
ecofeminism(s) • curated by Monika Fabijanska • Thomas Erben Gallery • 2020

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