This multi-media installation embodies a journey down the Colorado River. The story unfolds in a diary of sorts, a tale captured through notes of a journey both on and off the water while existing in a non-linear time frame. With a nod to historical field notes that described and defined the wonders of the natural world, places where people and the manmade are not the largest or most powerful objects in view, it also echoes the inner journey, the one that always accompanies the wanderer. This installation reflects the mental and emotional response to the awe-inspiring sublime of the river and muddles with memory and ponderings about the future.
All rivers, big and small, inside and outside of our bodies, share the same desire. To keep moving forward, no matter what obstacles attempt to divert.
Photo credit: Wendy Wischer and Pedro Wazzan