In collaboration with Autumn Leiker, Walking Water was an experiential day-long community procession walking the length of the Santa Fe River downstream, within city limits (approximately 12 miles). Prior to the procession community members were invited to create cyanotype fabric pieces containing prayers for the river at the Santa Fe Watershed’s Love Your Watershed event. Call and Leiker then wove these prayers into adornment, wearing them on the day of the event with the intent of carrying prayers downstream.

The project contained a website housing information on the event, the watershed, and creative process. Folks were invited to bring water from their homes to offer into a ceramic vessel created by Call and Leiker, which was then carried downstream and broken at the end of the walk, offering the water and prayers back to the watershed. The website housed a live-streamed GPS map for community members with six waypoints. These served as meeting places where people were invited to say their prayers for the river out loud, or internally, as they offered water into the collective vessel.

This project was generously funded by the Santa Fe Arts Commission.