Global Currents
As an artist, I have long been interested in the ways that our imagination interacts with the natural world, a world that is never far from the effects of human intervention. In this series, I am exploring the cultural and social history of water and its role in land disputes, the development of agriculture, and the building of empire. 

I collage maps and texts, digitally printed on meteorological-graphing paper, to indicate the divisions that human intervention has imposed on the world’s ecology and water supply by the use of dams, canals, and irrigation. The calligraphic elements in ink, in the collages, and in wire, represent our most precious resource and its refusal to be controlled without a fight.

Donald Worster’s insightful writings have influenced some of the thinking behind this work and I am deeply grateful to my dear friends, Hugo Vergara and Rosario Parodi.