The SOUTH PASS is an isolated saddle, covered in sage and grasses, that straddles the Continental Divide in the midst of Wyoming, the least populated state in the United States. The piece focuses on the nexus of the landscape’s meaning, its physical environment, and the human interaction with that landscape on the arduous journey westward up to the pass, the respite at the top, and the long descent down to the Green River Basin below. Johann Gottfried Herder said: “History is geography set into motion.” That is certainly true for the South Pass.
