A monument to water and earth, inspired by the artists’ research into the complex history of water that permeates all aspects of life in Borrego Springs.
Beneath the Clay is a monument to water and earth, inspired by the artists’ research into the complex history of water that permeates all aspects of life in Borrego Springs. It is a structure that rises from the ground as a monument, but one that is porous and creates an intimate space that literally envelops the viewer. Scacco guides your vision out to framed slivers of landscape and up through a watery, crystalline gem that refracts and casts light below and around it, inspiring new ways of seeing the land and its history in the material reality of the present.
Thanks to Dave Duncan; Mike McElhatton and the Anza Borrego Desert Natural History Association; Jim and Mike Seley and Zane Smiley at Seley Ranches; James Dion and the Borrego Village Association; Wade Beane and the Borrego Art Institute; and Haley Elskin and the Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
