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The Water: Shingle Creek Waterway to Florida Bay is an artist’s book by Allison Johnson in collaboration with Todd Anderson and Bruce Crownover.

This body of artwork follows water—tracing its dance through Florida’s layered terrains, where ecology/infrastructure blur. The project begins at Shingle Creek (Orlando) in systems of drainage and collection, where The Water is rerouted and abstracted.

From there, The Water guided the artists south across 300 miles. Moving through agricultural grids, beneath extraction and retention, alongside and within national forests that hold memory of ancient flows. Within a sheet of water, sawgrass whispers and sways to asphalt, subdivision, and all flora and fauna that call it home. The Water persists between these systems—redirected, remembered, resistant and rising.

The book/prints will be a record of passage rather than destination: a field document of movement through changing ecologies, where sea-level rise is not an event but a condition already unfolding.

All artworks are Photogravure prints with Monotype, Relief, and Chine Collé techniques on Kozo Shi Washi Paper. Each print is roughly 14” x 16” inches.