LACUSTRINE DREAMS, 2025

Summary: 

Lacustrine Dreams was originally created as a soma-sonic journey through the geologic time-scale of Lake Tahoe, CA/NV. One of only 20 lakes older than 1 million years old, Lake Tahoe is over 2 million years old and owes its longevity, depth and size to glacial, and ongoing tectonic and seismic activity. Simply put, it keeps getting deeper due to active faults webbing across the region.

After working with geologists from the University of Nevada, Reno, Professors William “Drew” Andrews and Richard Koehler, and data embedded in the installation, visually, sonically and vibrationally allows the audience to see hear and feel the geologic processes that formed the region.

Background: 

In August 2025 I was an artist in residence at Montello, in the Nevada desert. Isolated for 10 days I picked up a book by geologist and author Marcia Bjornerud, Timefullness. I was struck by her thesis that “thinking like a geologist can help us save the world”, and subsequently became inspired by a deeper sense of our time which includes the distant past, this present and the future, so we might not only save our resources, make more mindful decisions but to become better ancestors.