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, life and remembrance for nonhuman beings and communities; they hold accidental, crucial archives of threatened species and systems.
Combining video, photography and text, Remnants travels through key prairie cemetery remnants in Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana, seeking to critically reflect on environmental and spiritual care, preservation, and memory in context of a land’s mythologies and degradation.
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