The work as whole was authored in collaboration with Laura Boles Faw, with whom I have made many collaborative works on boats in and around the San Francisco Bay from 2009-current. The bridge and its changing appearance as a sculpture, once you are in the water, under it, and moving around it, was an interest in our work from the beginning.

This work was created for our thesis exhibition from the San Francisco Art Institute, which was held at the Ferry Building on the Bay. People learned about the work through a caller who directed them to a shuttle which took them as a discrete group to a nearby public dock where they could board the boat. The work operated as a site of transformation: people who boarded the boat and experienced the work together would return to the Ferry Building as a group having experienced a durational work outside of the exhibition together.

Once the boat reached a specified position in the water, in relation to the bridge, my solo audio work began to play. The audio work is a description of my relationship to the Golden Gate Bridge, for which my Great Uncle Charles Clarahan, was a major contributing mathemetician and engineer. In the sound work which played on board, we are asked to decide how responsible we are for each other as strangers, and how responsible we are for the actions of our ancestors.

One feature of my long-term collaborative work with Laura Boles Faw has been to make work where solo contributions by one of us is contained within collaborative work. Our collaboration always seeks to open up boundaries of authorship and the boundaries of exhibition-making.