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 ART WORKS RESIDENCY 2016

As part of the Art Works Residency in 2016 I created a project entitled: Moving Like a River, which collaboratively re-imagines the role of the San Lorenzo River through art and science. I engaged visitors in map-making, water-quality testing, and provided creative river field guides in both English and Spanish for self-guided tours. I collaborated with local topography mapmaker Mathew Jaimeson to create three life-sized maps of the entire San Lorenzo Watershed, as well as River Scientist Alev Bilginsoy with the CWC to render one of the large maps in UV-respondent bacteria, to highlight the naturally occurring, and human-created bacteria found throughout its tributaries. I also worked with the Santa Cruz Sand Quarry to build an interactive Erosion Sculpture highlighting the natural process erosion and the influence of human development on river water turbidity. 

River Love line activated                 

5/3/2016

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The relationship of the river and the city is always changing; always growing. When did this relationship begin? Was it good and pure? When does this relationship become unhealthy? And lastly, how do we seek help?
We all have had experiences of love gained, and love lost. We can look to our own experiences with fostering love, empathy, and respect for another to know how we can make this relationship between city and river better. 

This work involves your voice. Anyone who has gained and lost love is encouraged to call a voicemail created for this work and tell your story of love. By calling Google Voice at (805) 51-RIVER, your story will become the soundtrack to a visual love letter to the San Lorenzo River and will be exhibited at the MAH Art Works Summer Residency program, June of 2016.

When calling think about: How have we fallen in love? What about that person inspired this love in you? How did we change over time? How did we change one another? How did this love fall away? How might we have taken the person for granted, or were taken for granted? How have we fallen in love again?
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    Heidi Cramer

    has been undertaking a coalescence of research, practice, and activism as a means to develop empathy for the natural world through artistic action. 

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