Commissioned
by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum MATRIX program
(MATRIX No. 110), this work is the third piece built in response
to the ice age Lake Lahontan
as part of the Lahontan Group. It is an elegy for the
disappearance of that lake and ending of the
ice
ages. Lake Lahontan once covered over 8000 sq. mi of northern Nevada
of which the contemporary Pyramid Lake, north of Reno, NV is one
of the last living remnants. The
hull structure is permanently installed at the Djerassi
Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA, as Vanishing
Ship (Third State). |