Heather Green’s book-based installations come from intensive, deeply researched, collaborative, multiyear projects working with scientists, scholars and community members. Her stories are focused on a small headland in the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico, where her Tucson-based family has had a cabin throughout her life. The headland has the third-largest tidal range in North America and is a sparsely populated wetland complex, which is gradually showing the impact of human encroachment and climate change. A starting point for many of Green’s projects is her fascination with tides, which enable fleeting traces of human and animal activity which get washed away with each cycle. Tidal Timespace, the newest work, features an accordion book of photographs taken every three minutes from the same spot in the shallows capturing this magical natural phenomenon, The book is paired with small plaster casts of the mudflats at low tide which capture the patterns inscribed by animals and sculpted by the movement of water and tides. Green has a spectacular affinity for materials and pairs her letterpress, relief and inkjet printed books with other elements to build out the story. Often there are additional books in the installation, some bilingual, which visitors can handle and go deeper into scientific and cultural archives, quirky stories and hard data. Green’s installations focus on the specifics of the site in order to recreate the experience of it.