We were lucky enough to experience the opening of the dam, an event that happens once a year for 24hrs. We witness gallons of water gushing from a narrow passage, creating a gargantuan and fascinating sound, speed and impact.

Later we were invited to have a guided tour inside the Hydroelectric dam, we witnessed a calculated interconnecting array of pipes, wires and buttons, we were inspired by the weave of connectivity. The words controlled and chaos were chosen to convey the work going forward.

One half of the mural carries the idea of control. We illustrated this with a calculated circuit board and used recycled bottle caps to recreate buttons in the control room, each painted with a variety of motifs from wildlife or highlights we had during the research.

(like drawing the 2 dogs and 1-eyed cat whom belonged to the hosts of the the exterior wall space)

The stork feeding from the river represents the protected species which lives and feeds from the river. It sits with hundreds of different wildlife species that feed and inhabit the Riba-Roja d’Ebre. During our placement we toured the local nature reserve Grup de Natura Freixe, in Flix, there we made bat hides as part of a conservation project. They were later hung around the reserve and used as shelters. by a colony of vulnerable bats.