Monterey Bay Canyon

Embracing elements of scientific rationality and human emotion to create forms that echo landscapes of the inner and outer world, this sculpture reflects an area of the Monterey Bay Canyon, and underwater canyon of the California coast. The canyon has the same relative depth and grand scale as the Grand Canyon, but it is fully submerged in the Ocean and invisible from the surface of the land. This sculpture is the inverse - the space of the water that fills the canyon which was formed through a combination of currents, sediment, and erosion over millions of years time. 

 

One theory holds that the submarine canyon may be a remnant of an ancient outlet of the Colorado River carved nearly eight million years ago. Maps of this underwater canyon were translated into layers of plywood, revealing an undulating surface that invites “investigation and deep consideration of the natural forces that formed this unseen landscape.”