Category: Posts
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Watershed Stories
Watershed Stories is an on-going Community Mapping Project based in Great Salt Lake Watershed. A nomadic wooden sign, similar to those seen at trailheads and overlooks, travels around the watershed collecting maps, stories, and other media from the community about different places facing socio-ecological problems. In conjunction with the nomadic sign, creative workshops will be […]
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The Last Gestures
An inland sea disappears before our eyes. Coastal wildfire smoke drifts into the basin, mingling with toxic dust particles from the dry lake bed. We are downwind, with an economy reliant on poor land-use practices which cause ancestral forests to burn and inland seas to dry up. As the land bears its final unrequited offerings […]
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Some Updates
Last November I deleted my social media accounts for a variety of reasons. This has been a healthy change for me, and as an attempt to keep my friends updated, I’ll share some things here. I’m wrapping up my AmeriCorps service term in Green River soon. Here’s what I’ve been doing: Epicenter-Assisting in the design […]
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Revisit
See official publication in SWContemporary Vol. 2 Flights of Fancy In August 2020, I relocated from Salt Lake City to Green River, Utah on a volunteer contract. This is a real boom-and-bust town, known for its defunct missile base, melon fields, slot canyons, uranium tailings, and prospects of a nuclear reactor. Much of my extended […]
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Reinbahiting a Blank Spot on the Map
The land south of my new home is a decrepit missile launch complex. Alec Bang and I recently began a project there which will be exhibited at Finch Lane Gallery this year. This blog post serves to share a quick WIP update.
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Bonneville Assessment #3
Bonneville Assessments; a re-constructed collection of documents, detritus, and sediment from hazardous industrial sites in the Bonneville Basin. Number 3 in the series is paired with the short story Bonneville. Humans have inhabited the land surrounding the Great Salt Lake for over 10,000 years. Over the last few centuries, settlers have displaced and killed most […]
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Bonneville Assessment #2
Bonneville Assessments; a re-constructed collection of documents, detritus, and sediment from hazardous industrial sites in the Bonneville Basin. The second in its series, this sheet of maps and articles takes an encyclopedic approach to the industrialization of the Great Salt Lake.
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Bonneville Assessment #1
Bonneville Assessments; a re-constructed collection of documents, detritus, and sediment from hazardous industrial sites in the Bonneville Basin. The Bonneville Basin is a large endochronic basin which exemplifies geological time on a massive scale. Humans have inhabited the area for about 13,000 years, but just recently in the last 100 years it has become a […]
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Response & Responsibility
Response & Responsibility is a collaborative performance, sculpture, and series of inkjet prints which document the burning of a barbed-wire wrapped dining set. This project was done in a large natural burn scar in Central Utah using discarded barbed wire with Alec Bang. A response to the conversation of land use in the west. A […]
Douglas Tolman 