These recent paper works are sensual interpretations of hydrological data.  Created by cutting away layers of ground, they evoke the process by which rivers mark the landscape.  By eliminating all of the man-made structures that usually inform our location in space, these free-floating hydrologies
and relief topographies leave only the river basin to contemplate.  What at first might seem disorienting leads to the possibility of re-orienting, of identifying with and within these natural systems.  
Political/Hydrological is a river-centered atlas that proposes a new socio-political structure for the United States based on freshwater systems. In this eco-centric vision, state boundaries are defined by watershed divides. Rivers move
from margin to center, positioned at the heart of each political entity. In this way, water is given priority, not as a resource to be exploited, but 
as the defining element of social 
and biological systems. 
These pieces are not part of a series, but are related to and have informed my other bodies of work.

They include some early 
foundations of my exploration, created in the limbo between activism and artistry, between the lush landscape of the Haw River Watershed and the white walls of 
the graduate studio.