peter d'Agostino
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World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / WETLANDS

Florida- Cuba

Peter d’Agostino © 2018/2024

Installation: Two channel video-photo-text
Preview: 3:30min loop   Edition: 5+2AP

Walks focusing on the Florida Everglades and Zapata Swamp
reveal environmental similarities* with striking socio-political
differences between the U.S. and Cuba. The Zapata preserve is
adjacent to Bay of Pigs, where the failed U.S. backed invasion of
Cuba took place. This led to the most dangerous incident of the
Cold War- the Cuban Missile Crisis- when in October 1962
the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war
between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

* “Wetland habitats serve essential functions In an ecosystem...
acting as water filters, providing flood and erosion control,
and furnishing food and homes for fish and wildlife.”