This work is part of Hughen/Starkweather's Bay Bridge Project, in which they explored the past and future of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. This piece references the new and old Bay bridges, and the Douglas Fir piles, hammered 230 feet into bay mud, that supported the orginal bridge. For this project, the artists interviewed bridge architects and engineers, researched commute patterns, environmental data, topographical maps and diagrams, engineering drawings, and photographs. The artists were on-site during various stages of construction, including at the top of the 20-story scaffolding around the new bridge tower via construction elevator. A video work from this series, Requiem, is on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco through July 2017. 

Hughen/Starkweather is the collaboration of San Francisco artists Jennifer Starkweather and Amanda Hughen. They create research-based, abstract artworks about place. Each project includes intensive research, including maps, photographs, data, oral histories, and personal interviews with local community members. Similar to the way in which early cartographers were dependent on inconsistent tools and on word-of-mouth information from sailors and travelers, Hughen/Starkweather research place through found data and the personal memories of others.

Hughen/Starkweather have exhibited widely, including the Asian Art Museum (SF), the Public Policy Institute of California (SF), University of San Francisco, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum (SF), among others. Their commission to create a permanent public artwork embedded in the glass exterior and roof deck of the Union Square Central Subway Station in downtown San Francisco will open in 2018.