Traveling Watershed

Commissioned by the Society of Scottish Artists for the 104th Annual Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and traveling throughout Scotland 1998-1999. Two cases; 28” x 36” x 4” & 34” x 43” x 4”. Glass, etched aluminum, water collected from Edinburgh and Central Pennsylvania.

Two cases of bottles, one containing a sample of water from all the burns, firths and lochs of Edinburgh’s watershed and the other containing waters from streams, rivers and reservoirs around the artist’s studio in Central Pennsylvania. Each bottle was sandblasted with the name of the waterway from which it was collected. For traveling in Scotland and across the Atlantic, the boxes could be shut to become suitcases for the watersheds.