Misplaced Rain

Misplaced Rain
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MOAH
(Museum of Art and History)
Lancaster CA
2024

"Seventy-five percent of California's rain and snow falls in the northern third of the state, whereas 80% of the demand for water… resides in the southern two-thirds of the state — a circumstance referred to as "misplaced rain" by the Works Project Administration in 1942."
Engineering With Nature, The Sierra Nevada Range: The Source of California's Vitality

Misplaced Rain addresses human desire to control water in the name of infinite growth. Composed of wax, aqueduct dirt and clay on paper, two-dimensional works carved both by time and by hand resemble weather-worn topographies. Additionally ceramic works unite five California earth bodies, presenting a hybrid of animal and terrain. These works are meditations on human vs geological time, and the interdependence of natural and infrastructural systems.

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"Seventy-five percent of California's rain and snow falls in the northern third of the state, whereas 80% of the demand for water… resides in the southern two-thirds of the state — a circumstance referred to as "misplaced rain" by the Works Project Administration in 1942."
Engineering With Nature, The Sierra Nevada Range: The Source of California's Vitality

Misplaced Rain addresses human desire to control water in the name of infinite growth. Composed of wax, aqueduct dirt and clay on paper, two-dimensional works carved both by time and by hand resemble weather-worn topographies. Additionally ceramic works unite five California earth bodies, presenting a hybrid of animal and terrain. These works are meditations on human vs geological time, and the interdependence of natural and infrastructural systems.

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"Seventy-five percent of California's rain and snow falls in the northern third of the state, whereas 80% of the demand for water… resides in the southern two-thirds of the state — a circumstance referred to as "misplaced rain" by the Works Project Administration in 1942."
Engineering With Nature, The Sierra Nevada Range: The Source of California's Vitality

Misplaced Rain addresses human desire to control water in the name of infinite growth. Composed of wax, aqueduct dirt and clay on paper, two-dimensional works carved both by time and by hand resemble weather-worn topographies. Additionally ceramic works unite five California earth bodies, presenting a hybrid of animal and terrain. These works are meditations on human vs geological time, and the interdependence of natural and infrastructural systems.

Click on images below to view full screen.

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