Leg of goat (the Intake of the canal Dry River with the River Lontué)

Title: Leg of goat (the Intake of the canal Dry River with the River Lontué)

Year: 2024

Measures: 112 x 138 cm c/u

Technique: 2 photographs, digital inkjet printing with pigment lasting acid-free paper

Edition: 1/3

During 2021 and 2022, the artist experimented with and documented the practice of irrigation from the scale of the human body, focusing on issues of engineering vernacular, the practice of the body, types of studs and dams. The Leg of a goat, in the past widely used, is an example of this, but on a larger scale: A tripod 700 cms wide that is built on the river or canal, which contains a platform with stones whose weight keeps the structure in the river facing the force and pressure of the flow. To this end, the communities of water used to hold a small forest of eucalyptus forest near the river in the sector of the intake. Each time that it was necessary to make works of containment, dispensing, and diversion, they cut down trees and they drew large trunks with which they built this works that also act as a bridge for people and for animals. In the storm in the winter of 2023, the river and its flood destroyed everything in their path, and these technologies saved the day, managing to avoid overflows over, and kept Pichingal and surroundings to be a reality in the next irrigation season, summer 2023-2024, with the network of channels running. These photographs are of the kickstand built 2023 in replacement of the intake of the Canal Dry River, which was made of reinforced concrete and with dampers of steel, the river was full. In September 2024 were built 2 feet of goat more.