Drawdown is a looping video installation featuring the geometric yet organic beauty of circular crop patterns, which most of us only briefly glimpse from airplane windows.

Inspired by how landscape aesthetics in sci-fi films are used as social commentary, Drawdown presents a succession of hundreds of satellite images of circular fields to draw attention to how center-pivot irrigation systems are depleting fossil groundwater supplies worldwide. The decontextualized circular fields and irrigation machines become abstract images that invite viewers to decode the environmental discourse.

Riccardo La Foresta's sound composition for Drawdown is haunting, cinematic, and dramatic, characterized by echoes that linger in the listener's consciousness. Dark and evocative, Riccardos' composition brings a sense of gravitas and urgency to Drawdown. In this sonic context, all visual elements transcend their mundane appearance — an ordinary farm machine transforms into a foreboding behemoth, lush irrigated fields transform into a pox on the landscape.

Drawdown intends to emotionally engage viewers, inviting them to decipher the environmental conversation and encouraging awareness of this developing water crisis.