Shared Futures
Role: Artist and Lead Fabricator
Shared Futures is an artist-scientist collaboration culminating in an exhibit at Explora Science Center & Children’s Museum, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Paige shared her data sets making up a map of the Gallinas, Mora, Sapello, and Pecos watersheds which I translated into a design and laser etched in acrylic plexiglass.
Viewers pushed down on a seesaw mechanism to activate turbid water containing sediment and ash, which then washed over the map. The ash and sediment then settled into the etched paths of the watershed.
These watersheds illustrate the confluence of water, as well as species, communities, and forests that are all interrelated and affected by the fire.
About Project:
I worked with Paige Tunby, a Ph.D. graduate in Civil Engineering conducting research in the watersheds affected by the 2022 Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fire, New Mexico’s largest wildfire in recorded history.
Wildfire & Watersheds: Interwoven Futures is an interactive water sculpture based on the concept of turbidity. The watersheds were severely compromised by debris flow from the wildfire, including the Gallinas River which supplies drinking water to Las Vegas, NM.
