In 2013, the opposite occurred; the
water levels in the lake increased dramatically and caused the flamingos living on the lake to
migrate to nearby lakes in
search of a food supply.
Projected onto folded cardboard, American artist Patty Chang's poetic and politically charged moving - image work The Wandering Lake (2009) documents Chang's
search for the Wandering Lake
of Xinjiang, a
migrating body
of water in the Chinese desert; her subsequent travel to the shrinking Aral Sea, which has lost 70 percent
of its
water as a result
of Soviet irrigation projects; and her tracing
of the course
of the aqueduct that brings
water from Southern China to Beijing.