Amanda Hughen

Hughen / Starkweather
Marshland once penetrated as far north as the corner of Mission and Seventh streets
Archival pigment print, 30 x 40 inches, 2007. Edition of 3.

In this image, Starkweather's black dots and tiny holes poked into the mylar represent the location of some of the original creeks that ran through downtown San Francisco in the mid 1800's. These marks also map the thickness of saturated sediment in the area in 1994. Hughen created layers of circles in the background to reference water: the circular form of bubbles and the circular pattern that appears when light bounces off water.