EXT 503 WEST ML MK 26
JAWBONE CANYON / LA AQUEDUCT
35°18'53.7"N 118°02'40.3"W
All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.
2021, Aqueduct, Infrastructure, Video, Desert, 93519
NE Architects Inc.
TEXTS
Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Gerardo Guerrero is an artist and designer born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and living in Southern California. His work is imbued with narratives that consider the physical experience of being in a specific place. Central to his practice is an affection for the subtle changes that manifest in a landscape at various temporal scales.