Confluence Project

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See Degree Confluence Project for the quest to find the intersections of whole number latitude and longitude.

The Confluence Project is a series of outdoor installations and interpretive artworks located in public parks along the Columbia River and its tributaries in the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. Works underway may include both building and landscape designs as well as integrated artwork. The project draws on the region's history, including Native American myths and entries from the Lewis and Clark Expedition journals, to "evoke a landscape and a way of life submerged in time and memory."^[1]

Artist and architect Maya Lin, the central figure in the Confluence Project, is designing installations that follow the path of Lewis and Clark through the Columbia River Basin. Lin is collaborating with landscape architects to restore natural environments, and each artwork will draw text from Lewis and Clark's journals or traditions grounded in Native American cultures.

[edit] Sites

Washington

• Cape Disappointment State Park, Ilwaco, Washington^[2] (completed)
• Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Vancouver, Washington
• Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver, Washington^[3] (completed)
• Sacajawea State Park, Pasco, Washington^[4] (scheduled for completion in 2009)
• Chief Timothy Park, Clarkston, Washington (scheduled for completion in 2008)

Oregon

• Sandy River Delta (scheduled for completion in 2008)
• Celilo Falls (scheduled for completion in 2009)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Confluence Project

• "A Meeting Of Minds", The Seattle Times, 2005-06-12. Retrieved on 2006-09-07. 

• "Maya Lin advances Confluence Project", The Oregonian, 2004-04-01. Retrieved on 2006-09-07. 

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