Confluence ProjectChief Timothy Park
Near the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers
Clarkston, Washington
"The Confluence Project is truly an expedition of its own, undertaken by many different people, with Maya Lin as the visionary guide. We may see each site from different perspectives, depending on who we are. But for all of us who have come together through this project, the route Lewis and Clark traveled has now acquired a second meaning, as the direction in which we're heading."
This island at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers, in Clarkston, Washington, is part of the homelands of the Nez Perce. It is the only Confluence Project site that still resembles what Lewis and Clark saw as they passed through: a dry, grassy steppe.
The artwork
Listening Circle
Maya Lin plans to create a large, stone-rimmed earthwork—a listening circle—sculpted out of a natural amphitheater. Its shape is inspired in part by the imagery of sound waves and also by a Nez Perce blessing ceremony that took place on the site in spring 2005.
Timeline
This site is still in the planning phase.
- Cape Disappointment State Park
- Ridgefield
- Vancouver Nat'l Historic Reserve
- Sandy River Delta
- Celilo Park
- Sacajawea State Park
- Chief Timothy Park
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