In 2012, Angela O'Hara embarked on the first of many trips to the Aguas Termales Reserve in
Huánuco, Peru, for research. Featuring a “boiling river” revered by local communities for its
healing power, the origins of the phenomenon still baffle geologists and questions surrounding
her experiences there still haunt her.
Part of a larger work of “imaginative ethnography” that experiments with new methodologies,
integrating photography, memoir, and creative research, Intangible is a meditation on the “spirit
of place” and the power of the imagination to mend our fractured bonds with the Earth.