The Tale of Lost Waters
The painted scrolls that comprise The Tale of Lost Waters form a narrative that documents a global geological disaster and emphasizes the sacredness of the Earth’s vital resources. Like the scrolls created thousands of years ago as revered stories or records of historical events, The Tale of Lost Waters tells the story of the 53% of our lakes and inland seas that existed for millions of years but are now only a fraction of their original size. Climate change and extraction are the primary causes of this environmental disaster.
For centuries, landscape paintings have depicted beautiful scenes of specific places - sometimes majestic, sometimes intimate. In the same vein, The Tale of Lost Waters reveals what is now the ironic beauty of our damaged contemporary landscapes. Highly textured and saturated with rich colors like the deserts, mountains and forests they portray, the images evoke the grandeur, history and devastation of the Earth’s waters.
