Beautifully designed, with a special reverence for her humanitarian heart, Dreaming Water is the most thorough monograph dedicated to the work of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuna to date. Vicuna coined the term "Arte Precario" in the mid-1960s as a new category for her works composed of debris and structures that disappear in the landscape, and which also include her quipus ("knot" in Quechua), envisioned as poems in space. Dreaming Water brings together over 200 works--including paintings, drawings, screenprints, collages, textiles, videos, photographs, installations, poetry, artist books and performances--created throughout the artist's remarkable career. It also features several stimulating texts--a lengthy epistolary piece by curator and editor Miguel A. Lopez as well as new essays by anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli, curator Catherine de Zegher and art historian Jos de Nordenflycht. Vicuna herself contributes two texts, reflecting on her drawings from the "Palabrarmas" project and the activism of the group Artists for Democracy, which she cofounded in 1974. A rousing conversation between Vicuna, anthropologist Marisol de la Cadena and curator Camila Marambio also figures in the book, blending the artist's voice with those who are experts in fields pertinent to her practice.