World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / DESERTS
Peter d’Agostino © 2015/2022 Video installation Preview: 5min loop Edition: 5+2 AP
Conceived as a series of walks exploring natural-cultural-virtual environments in the four major deserts of North America: Chihuahuan, Mojave, Sonoran and Great Basin. Chihuahuan Desert preview includes: soaptree yucca plants as testaments to natural survival in the desert ecosystem; fields of petroglyphs dating back to the Ancestral Pueblo period (c. 1300 to 1600 CE) and the location of the first Atomic Bomb detonated in 1945 preceding Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"Deserts, which account for the largest percentage of the Earth's terrestrial surface area and a majority of the western North American landscape, are among the ecosystems predicted to be the most sensitive to global change." Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants
Exhibition: Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, PA 2018
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