This animation piece was a projection installation at the Eli and Edythe Broad Museum of Art in 2014 as part of a larger gallery exhibition produced by STOSS.
The animation is intended to be a ‘living painting’ of the hydrological cycle at the scale of a municipality. It inverts the traditional visual hierarchies of aerial landscape perspectives by showing the water systems of East Lansing, Michigan as the defining features of the landscape rather than the land itself. The water systems are portrayed as breathing, living things that each have their own ‘rhythm’ but still share relationships in terms of time and intensity. For example, the subterranean aquifer and river both swell when it rains but to different extents.