SINING ZHU 

The formation of the Salton Sea, located east of Los Angeles, was an accident based on the impact of human operations, where the water comes from the collapse of the dam of Colorado River. In 1905, people used the river water for agricultural irrigation, tourism and sewage discharge. Two years later, the breach in the levee was closed, but the wastewater that had been used was trapped in the parched Salton Basin. Excessive human intervention had left the water heavily laden with heavy metals and chemicals. The waters were no longer suitable for living creatures and a large number of fish were poisoned on the shore.

In an area of about 20 square meters on the shore of Salton Sea Lake, we used gold panning as an excavation method to find 300 fish preopercular bones, where the respiration part of the fish is, and the external environment is exchanged with the internal environment here. This is the threshold of the life and death for fish. At very early stage, part of the fish flowed into the Salton Sea and stucked here, and the other part of the fish were placed for tourism purposes. Due to the impact of the Anthropocene, fish have to undergo migration and dispersal that defy the ecological living mode.

位于洛杉矶东部的salton sea 的形成是一个完全基于人类作业影响的意外，这里的河水来自 于崩溃的科罗拉多河堤坝。1905年，人们将崩溃的河水用于农业灌溉、旅游业及污水排放。两年后，堤坝的缺口被堵上，可是这些曾被使用的废水困在了干涸的索尔顿盆地。过 度的人为干预使水中含有大量的重金属及化学成分。这片水域不再适合生物生存，大量⻥ 类被毒死在岸上。

在salton sea湖畔一片大约20平方米的区域中，我们用淘金作为挖掘手段发现了300枚⻥的 鳃盖⻣。鳃盖⻣是⻥用呼吸的部位，外部环境与内部环境在此处交换。对于⻥类而言，这里是他们生死的阀⻔(threshold of the life and death)。最早，部分⻥类跟随水流从外部流 进salton sea并滞留在这里，另一部分⻥类来自于出于旅游业目的的投放。因为人类世的影 响，⻥类不得不经受违抗生物生存模式的迁移与离散。