Events


Thu, Jun 02
|The Dalles
Bewildered
Exploring a reconciliation of our love of natural places with our bewilderment at the ongoing war against the earth.
Time & Location
Jun 02, 2022, 11:00 AM – Jun 30, 2022, 11:00 AM
The Dalles, 220 E 4th St #2206, The Dalles, OR 97058, USA
About The Event
Featuring M Acuff, Renee Couture, and Carolyn Hopkins
As residents of the Pacific Northwest’s more rural reaches, Hopkins, Couture and Acuff have built lives in which the land and its fragilities are experienced directly. Fleeing forest fire, caring for animals who cannot escape smoke-filled air, losing barns to wind, and picking up debris after flood waters subside have become near annual routines. Negotiating anthropocentric climate change and its resulting catastrophes is simply the new daily normal. Our love of remote and natural places must be reconciled with the bewilderment we feel at our own entanglement in the systems, economies and histories that have initiated, and perpetuate, this ongoing war against the earth.
Collectively, our work asks how we are part of the making and unmaking of this relationship. How land stewardship may mean considering notions of ecology and restoration in new ways, as well as our own fragility. Our work…