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 Marina Water Muse, 2004
Tempe Town Lake, Arizona

The Muse is an artwork designed to provide beneficial circulation for the Rio Salado Lagoon. It is also designed to echo the traditions of water distribution found throughout the Salt River valley and to encourage a contemplative interaction with flowing water. Water traveling through the system flows though a gountlet of various cnannels, basins and siphons evoking different visual and acoustic conditions. Up to 6 cubic feet of water per second can be pumped from the Town Lake through an underground pipe to begin to journey through the Muse.
 
   
Water emerges into a source pool at the top of the Ampitheater.
Functional water control wheels can be turned by children to open and close water gates that direct the flow into underground pipes.

   
Water flow reappears in seat channels and disappears in the spiral catch basins at the far end of small canals.
 
Water flow siphones through underground pipes to appear once more at seating areas constructed with limestone blocks salvaged from the historic Roosevelt Dam.

   
Flood/Drought grate detail:   In dry years the water ran under a bed of rocks.
The flow of water through the Muse can be controlled by visitors.

   
 
 Grate detail at center outfall.

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