"Intimate Geography" and completion of shower curtain piece

After discovering two interesting artist blogs (Judy Coates Perez's www.judyperez.blogspot.com and Edith Abeyta's www.imissyouphotos.blogspot.com) I decided to take the plunge and start my own. Linda Hoag and I are curating a show to open April 8 at the Acorn Gallery in Highland Park called "Intimate Geography -- getting to know a place." She and I have been brainstorming for several years on various creative topics, and this is our most ambitious project to date. In addition to curating the show, we are contributing artwork and poetry. So far, I have completed one of two mixed media pieces for the show. It is called "Arroyo Seco Watershed and Surrounding Area," and consists of a transparent shower curtain hung from an elliptical shower curtain rod (from the gallery ceiling) covered with tiny landscape photos that include water.
I have been shooting landscape photos randomly for several years, and most of the photos I chose for this piece were taken last winter during the torrential rains that hit Southern California after Christmas. Normally there is very little visible water along the Arroyo Seco (logical!), but last year was different. I am also very interested in landscape theory, and this project plays with that a little. The original purpose of "views" or picturesque landscapes was to document locations in ways useful to their owners. Oddly enough, the water system in Altadena, where we live, is structured in such a way that water users become shareholders in various water companies. Michael and I, as stockholders of Lincoln Avenue Water Company, are therefore de facto "owners" of Arroyo Seco water. There aren't a lot of words in this piece, but I guess viewers can look at the images and come to their own conclusions about water usage, politics and the environment.