In her recent work, Phyllis Ewen builds 3-dimensional topographies through layering, altering, and reshaping archival paper. Beginning with scanned charts, maps and photos digitally printed, she adds paint and text, creating transformed landscapes. Life-giving waterways have been contested, diverted, polluted, and exhausted by human intervention. In her series, Thinking Like a River and Northern Waters, she explores ways in which our imagination and memory interact with our altered natural world.