<div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="'Arial Narrow'" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>This from a friend, do submit!<br>Best,<br>Gaby<br><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The
story of California is shaped by its troubled relationship to water.
Over the last century, the definition of conservation and
by extension, </span></font></font></b></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;">reclamation, has changed drastically. </span></font></font></b></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We
invite critical and/or creative submissions for a forthcoming book and
exhibition, presenting the politics, poetics, history, reclamation</span></font></font></b></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;">strategies, and communities living near to water in California.</span></font></font></b></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;">This
project will create a new way of navigating California's landscape.
Erasing the traditional map, tied together by counties and towns, the</span></font></font></b></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;">state can be drawn by waterways, watersheds, reclamations, deprivations...connecting seemingly disparate bodies. This is an experiment in</span></font></font></b></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;">geography,
that encourages the mythological while integrating playful artistry
with a clear understanding of sometimes complex histories and</span></font></font></b></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;">technologies. </span></font></font></b></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Submission deadline: July 15, 2008</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="'Arial Narrow'" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="'Arial Narrow'" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Submit to: </b></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="'Arial Narrow'" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Enid Baxter Blader: <a href="mailto:enid@enidbaxterblader.com" target="_blank">enid@enidbaxterblader.com</a></b></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="'Arial Narrow'" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>or Nicole Antebi: <a href="mailto:nantebi@mac.com" target="_blank">nantebi@mac.com</a></b></span></font></div><div><br>
</div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Please keep project abstracts under 250 words. <br></span></div></div>