This artist’s book entitled “Channel & Flow” documents an attempt to follow a stream on its path through a dense suburban neighborhood. It uses the structure of the book's page turns and foldouts to represent how the stream has been contained and fragmented by the built environment. (From the publisher’s note)
Tripp’s Run is a stream located in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. It runs above and below ground for approximately five miles before draining into Lake Barcroft, and ultimately the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay.
“A combative relationship has emerged between human actors and water’s inherent propensity to flow, spread, and cling to itself….. Despite the changes of the last century, Tripp’s Run persists in some form, a presence we experience like an echo, appearing and disappearing, perhaps most reliably visible as the negative space inside an environment that has been built under, over, and up to its edges.”
Happy National River Day!
