In 2006, Jacob Goble made a watercolor of people traveling across land by boat, by digging a river for that boat. In 2008, Christopher Robbins asked Jacob if he would join him in Serbia to make this story come true.

The project, called The consequences of a drawing by Jacob Goble, was part of the 13th Pancevo Biennial, in Serbia. More photos here.

Tremendous thanks to the US Embassy, Belgrade and the US State Department for their generous support of this project, and, of course, to everyone at Pancevo Republika for all of their help! In other words: thanks to Jelena Radic, Ana Vilenica, Marija Samardzic, Stacey Rose-Blass, Susan Delja, Ivana Tosic, Jelena Putre, Marija Bjelopretovic, Dragan Bogdanovic, and others I hope I have not left out!

The title went through several strange perturbations as it was translated from English to Serbian and back again, so we’ve actually got a trio of titles to work from: ‘Aftermath of a watercolor’, ‘The consequences of a drawing’, and ‘The repurcussions of an aquarelle’. Any favourites?