still running water (2017-2019)

Still Running Water is a 12 minute video that follows the Columbia River from source to mouth. It is witness to fourteen hydro-electric dams, and the reservoirs, flooded forests and buried townsites behind them. To read an article about the piece published in Blackwood Gallery’s Society for the Diffusion fo Useful Knowledge Issue 04, Shoring, download here. For the video link please contact the artist.

Columbia's Source, Canal Flats BC | Video Still | 2017

Columbia's Source, Canal Flats BC | Video Still | 2017

Upper Arrow Reservoir, BC | Video Still | 2017

Upper Arrow Reservoir, BC | Video Still | 2017

Wells Dam, WA | Video Still | 2017

Wells Dam, WA | Video Still | 2017

Burton Townsite, Arrow Lakes Reservoir, BC | Video Still | 2017

Burton Townsite, Arrow Lakes Reservoir, BC | Video Still | 2017

John Day Dam, WA | Video Still | 2017

John Day Dam, WA | Video Still | 2017

Video Still from Underwater | 2017

Video Still from Underwater | 2017

Duncan Dam and Reservoir, BC | Video Still | 2017

Duncan Dam and Reservoir, BC | Video Still | 2017

McNarry Dam, WA | Video Still | 2017

McNarry Dam, WA | Video Still | 2017

Installation View, Luminocity (14 - 21 October, 2023) at the Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops B.C.

Photo: Frank Luca