Linda Gass and Jim Feuhrer, Bishop Tuff

Water Entrapment at Owens River Gorge 4520'

The Owens River Gorge is the site of human intervention in the ancient water way. This installation was a collaboration with Jim Feuhrer. We reconstructed a fabric waterway near the cliff edge of the Bishop Tuff, in a naturally eroded waterway and created a dam in a natural pool. The dam was constructed intentionally smaller than the pool itself to increase the tension created by this intervention - the visual disruption is symbolic of the man made disruption. We also used the color of the fabric to signify the velocity of the water as it flows downstream.