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Thin lines, fifty-three of them, slate blue to warm gray, run down the sheet in a loose bundle, part into loops near the middle and gather again below; one rust line among them; pale paper.

Ghost of the Creek | Engraved Memory

100 × 125 cmMeasured at La SaladitaArt by Addie Conner

How it was made

Anatomy board: Ghost of the Creek | Engraved Memory. The data on the left, the painting on the right.
The data on the left, the painting on the right. Open full size

Forty years of the creek mouth's waterline, as satellites saw it, each year laid over the last.

The creek mouth at La Saladita, kept as one drawn memory: each thin line is where the water's edge sat in one year, 1986 to 2026, laid over the year before, slate blue to warm gray, with the long-term middle in rust. Where lines bunch, the beach held; where they loop apart, the mouth moved. Shoreline Memory reads the same satellite archive as the coast's edge.

Made from 878 Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite pictures, traced and drawn with mathematics, its ink chosen with AI.

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