"The two time scales - the one human and emotional, the other geologic - are so disparate. But a sense of geologic time is the most important thing to get across to the non-geologist: the slow rate of geologic processes - centimeters per year - with huge effects if continued for enough years. A million years is a small number on the geologic time scale, which human experience is truly fleeting - all human experience, from its beginning, not just one lifetime. Only occasionally do the two time scales coincide."

- Eldridge Moores, quoted from "Assembling California"

Remnants of California presents the human landscape of California as a series of ruins. The project presents a world where human activities are little more than the geologic leftovers from a time that has recently passed.

This project is informed by an ongoing series of conversations and informal collaborations with geologists, geomorphologists, biologists, and climatologists.