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The Salt River flows over 300 miles from its headwaters in the White Mountains to its confluence with the Gila River southwest of Phoenix, Arizona, the fifth largest metropolitan area in the United States. The Salt River has been a vital source of water and energy for humans from pre-history to modern times.
During the past fifteen hundred years, humans have modified the river and its surroundings in numerous ways to provide drinking water, irrigation for crops, and electricity. In doing so, the river has been extensively changed from its natural state.
It is this intersection of the natural environment and the built world that is the subject of my essays and photographs. Through my work, I try to document the inherent tension between these two opposing forces through history. And I hope to evoke an answer to the question of whether these two forces are in sustainable equilibrium as seen through time.