Where do we find the wild water of our neighborhoods? Climbing over guardrails to reach drainage pipes, leaning over bridges to scoop up a bucket full. We touch each of the waters before it becomes part of a silvery map.

Bushwhacking down brambly slopes and under highway bridges to collect local streams and rivers—and then bringing water samples back to the gallery to map the waterways is a whole new way to witness the watershed.

Unseen by our naked eye, microscopic organisms called diatoms drift in the East River. These pavers show the gorgeous architecture of the diatoms and embellish the park with an ecological ornament of microorganisms.

8,500 recycled glass jars holding gathered water tell a visual story of one community's watershed.

A swirling wall of patterned discs overlooking the Delaware River reflects the color, translucency, light, and movement of the water outside the Independence Seaport Museum.

A magnified view of the native ecological system of the Delaware River is deeply sandblasted into glass panels.

The artwork brings the river water out of its banks —allowing us to perceive the body of water from both a side view and from below.

After landing, travelers can look again at the rivers they have just flown over.

A living map in the gallery composed of water from the very streams flowing nearby.

Tracing the path of rain along a half mile stretch from street to storm drain to stream.

The neighborhood collects samples of their backyard waterways and display them in a library of local water specimens.

Crum Creek Meander is an incognito version of water: driven by wind, neither liquid nor made of natural materials, it nonetheless invokes the hidden histories of local streams and tributaries.

Though solid and dry, this environment feels like the swirling movement of river water.

Conjuring rain, this artwork reveals the origin of water in our landscape.

A curtain made of seven hundred and fifty buoys rises and falls with the creek’s water level.

A field of pink swaying seed heads line the riverbank.

When it rains, the map creates a watershed in miniature.

Diagramming the hydrology and geology of a stream with stone and glass.

Thousands of buoys made an eyelash for the city – each strand bending with the changing currents.

The surface of water is dryly drawn inside the gallery.

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An asphalt path flowing with the hydrological patterns of the stream below.

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