We stopped at the dry Owens Lake where I had preplanned a piece that dealt with human intervention in the landscape. It had been mined until unprofitable, and was abandoned with its legacy of rusting mining machines. I wanted to use the existing energy of the site, the corrosive quality of the evaporites to speed the disintegration of the metal, the marks of human intervention. I wanted to create beautiful piles and hills of the white minerals. My intent was for monuments of some scale, perhaps done by a group piece or large equipment. However my actual piece was a very small (about two feet high) solitary activity.