Water and Power is a study of Pat O’Neill’s native Los Angeles, brilliantly transformed through layers of imagery, superimposition, optical printing, and a wry spirit. O’Neill has explained that “Water and Power was made over a period of years, without a script, relying on the chance confluence of places, people and conditions. It turned out to be very much about water, in all of its physical states, and about cyclic motions... Stories and progressions rose up out of the material, the written texts appeared, and the ending became the beginning—several times.”