Category: environment
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combining elements 1
water Anyone who has spent time in the southwest knows how precious a resource water is. A Washington Post headline in February of this year announced “Southwest drought is the most extreme in 1200 years” and “The past 22 years rank as the driest period since at least 800 A.D.” The Guardian in November 2021…
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stories from ground zero
July 16, 1945 was an ominous day in the history of humankind and the planet as the US Army’s Manhattan Project detonated Trinity, the first atomic bomb, in Jornada del Muerto, NM. (“Jornada del Muerto” fittingly translates as “Journey of the Dead Man” or “Working Day of the Dead.”) July 16 is also the day of one…
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the green room
the green room, a place of meditation + contemplation. green references the long history of uranium mining on the colorado plateau/navajo nation where 90% of our nuclear arsenal during the cold war came from diné lands and the resulting contamination of the land, water, livestock and humans since 1942. to learn more…
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Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned Land: The Impact of Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands + People
photo by Nancy Hill advertisement for the show on eye lounge, roosevelt street in phoenix installation at coconino center for the arts Artist statement for Hope + Trauma in a Poisoned Land Coconino Center for the Arts August 12, 2017 – October 28, 2017 Atomic (r)Age While many…
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water is life (the full story)
The Dinè nation is rich with oil, natural gas, coal, uranium + water in aquifers. Yet, as a result of decades of being treated as a colonized nation approximately 25% of the 180,000 people living on the rez don’t have running water (or electricity though more people are getting solar systems). This new 2 color,…
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event horizon
I was invited to participate in the 2017 Joshua Treenial. The theme this year was event horizon. I ventured to Joshua Tree in January to find a potential location for an installation and to obtain source photos. Thanks to local resident and artist Diane Best I was able to find an abandoned house on the…
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free, downloadable, high resolution graphics for the national and regional climate marches april 29,2017
collaboration with nick mann for peoples climate movement
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climate change and bird migration
If one were to google “…what is the impact of climate change on bird migration,” one of the first links that comes up is a page by World Migratory Bird Day 2007. It seems this organization formed in 2007 to bring light to the issue of climate change on bird migration, had their day…
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subtle and insidious
Images from the Brooklyn Street Art blog post addressing uranium contamination on the Navajo nation also featuring work by Icy + Sot.