Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel began to work collaboratively in 1985. In 1986, the American Academy in Rome invited a number of artists, including Jones and Ginzel, to submit proposals for the National Endowment for the Arts Collaborative Award. While on a Fulbright Fellowship in Rome two years before, Jones was struck by the perfect symmetry of a section of the Tiber River in the very center of the city. This invitation was the beginning of many years of dedicated work to develop the site and turn it into a creative laboratory for contemporary art and collaboration in the heart of Rome.
Together with Ginzel, Jones conceived a floating installation animated by the current of the Tiber River. The work proposed a series of javelins and circular buoys that would punctuate the water surface and dramatize the river’s current.
