Remnants
2024 • Video, Photography, Installation
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In the Midwest, 19th-century pioneer cemeteries—among the few areas of land spared from plowing and agricultural development—have inadvertently preserved remnants of the native tallgrass prairie ecosystems that once covered the land. In ecology, remnant refers to sites where native plant communities have not been disturbed by human development.
These sites now provide rare spaces of survival and life for nonhuman beings and communities; and hold accidental, crucial archives of threatened species and systems.
Combining video and photography and text, Remnants travels through cemetery prairie remnants in Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana to reflect on environmental and spiritual care, the nature of memory, and the land’s mythologies and degradation.
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