May 26, 2000 elevation 4520'

The Owens River Gorge is the site of human intervention in the Ancient Waterway. This installation was a collaboration with Jim Feuhrer. We reconstructed a fabric water flow near the cliff edge of the Bishop Tuff, in a naturally eroded waterway and created a dam in a natural pool. The dam was constructed intentionally smaller than the pool itself to increase the tension created by this intervention - the visual disruption is symbolic of the man made disruption. We also used the color of the fabric to signify the changing velocity of the water as it flows downstream - the lighter the color, the faster the flow.