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This
artwork features air bubbling up through a fine powder
constrained between two glass plates tilted at a 45
degree angle. The tilting creates a continually changing
landscape evocative of aerial photographs of river drainage
networks on Earth and on Mars. As air is pumped into
the powder, it carves small streams. After the initial
currents of rising air have carved channels in the powder,
subsequent streams follow the paths of least resistance,
further deepening and elaborating the drainage network.
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