“At the far end of the Bonneville Speedway stands the mountain known as Floating Island–”floating” because it appears to arise from water, and “island” because it is separated from other elevated landscape features by accumulated silts — feet deep (the Bonneville Salt Flat). The idea of using Floating Island as a geographical referent in mental maps made by people visiting the area is somewhat ironic. Most of the mountain is underground, and what rises 1200 feet above the playa is often indistinguishable from the mountains behind it.”

Bash is founder and Principal Investigator at the Itinerant Laboratory for Perceptual Inquiry. Her ongoing project, A Field Guide to Observable Phenomena, manifests her engagement with imaging, imagining, language, and experience of place as both creative analysis and critical practice. (katherinebash.com & itinerantlaboratory.org)