Cristina Iglesias’s sculptural pool at the Nancy and Rich
Kinder Building entrance invites viewers to consider both the Houston landscape
and the essential nature of our environment. Evoking the rhythms of a tidal
pool, it alternately fills and drains throughout the day, much as this city’s
water table ebbs and flows. The basin is made up of a bronze labyrinth of
roots, as if the nearby live oaks have shaped the pool rather than the hand of
the artist. Thus, for Iglesias, Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots,
the water), becomes “a portal to the underground, to the nature of the Earth,
and to the strata of memory.”