This fountain, embedded with the cool blue and green tiles of Spanish fountains and West Coast swimming pools, is encircled by the dusky brown hills of California. In the center, a timelapse-like spiral of bare feet serves as pools for cascading water, its natural flow controlled as it pours across the feet much like a champagne glass fountain. The bare feet move downward, as reminiscent of Duchamp’s Nu descendant un escalier (1912) as it is of the wearying process of plodding along a baked hiking trail in the desert heat. While the feet repeat in close-up detail, the mountainous topography appears in miniature, as if seen from a bird’s eye view or the passenger seat on a long road trip, twisting perspective and scale. Surrounding the oasis, the landscape is of sun-drenched and drought-ridden California. The feet, made of slip-cast ceramics, are set into a flame-like base: the threat of wildfire waiting to overtake the hills and create another beautiful disaster.