Path of Least Resistance
(2020 - Ongoing)
Rivers find the path of least resistance from higher ground to the sea. For millennia, we have manipulated, built on and re-shaped our natural landscape in Europe, but rivers remain stubbornly steadfast. The most we can do is partially re-direct them. People have lived, traveled, fought and made their livelihood on these waters for a very long time. Often they form borders between countries and become an overlapping venn-diagram of national or regional culture, or a place to trade goods or services with neighbours. These can be strange and unusual places. Often they are flanked by rich agricultural land. People sit and stare at the river all day, happy if they come home with a fish. Since 2020 I have been been traveling down Germany's different rivers by bicycle. The Rhine, Danube, Spree and Oder. This is a slow travel observation of these meandering arteries of our continent, and the life around them.
