Enid Baxter Blader and I are currently editing a forthcoming book and exhibition, presenting the politics, poetics, history, reclamation strategies, and communities living near to water in California. Water, CA traces the history of California through paradoxical states and watershed realities- combined with the apocalyptic splendor of myths, the violence of dams and secrets of decay- that inspires artistic investigations into California’s Water. This project will create a new way of navigating California's landscape.  Erasing the traditional map, tied together by counties and towns, the state can be drawn by waterways, watersheds, reclamations, deprivations...connecting seemingly disparate bodies. This is an experiment in geography, that encourages the mythological while integrating playful artistry with a clear understanding of sometimes complex histories and technologies.  
Water, CA
Creative Visualizations for a New Millennium
 
“This interplay of dreams with land, of reciprocal change and adaptation becomes a kind of biography of the continent.”
-William Debuys from Salt Dreams
Working Cover. Image: Watershed with Barrel by Cynthia Hooper