How Water Shapes Earth

Essay examining the evolution of Earth’s waterways. Project shows where water comes from, how it is spreading, how beautifully shaping the planet, how it is used, wasted and in the end, what lays ahead as water retreats. Millions of years of Earth’s evolution was compressed into one timeline. Project explores shrinking glaciers and braiding rivers before paying homage to thriving lakes, rivers, and creeks. As the narrative continues, water and land collide with visions of lagoons and marshes before giving way to the realities of man’s imprint on these bodies of water. Moving full circle, we end with dry waterways—river beds only recognizable by their sinewy curves filled with new green vegetation. The space left behind runs like cracks across the surface of once fertile land foreshadowing the fate of biodiversity. In the last three hundred years, 87 percent of the Earth's wetlands have been destroyed. Project Water.Shapes.Earth hopes to inspire awe, as well as provoke the public to face the destructive tendencies that we have toward our environment. The aerial point of view gives us the ability to observe our landscapes in the new light. Bordering between document and painting-like abstractions new perspective stimulate a process of thinking about something essential to our survival, something we often take for granted - until it’s gone.