Juxtaposing the p-rimary elements of earth and water, Immersions points to the immediate dangers of our dying oceans and climate change, while probing the timeless cycles of life and death. Both a meditation on the life-giving nature of water and the growing reality of despoliation, Inger Whist’s Water Issues combines real and interpretive images of water bodies, both sacred and profane. Ken Chou’s Reference and Reverence interrogates our relationship with the earth as a life-giving garden and as a final resting place, through an ongoing observation of ecological burials. Few and far between, these sites eschew traditional practices such as embalming, allowing interment in simple pine boxes, so bodily remains might return to the earth without adding to the spoil of industrial practices.