This installation returned historic photographs from the Library of Congress, rendered as sun-exposed cyanotype flags, to the landscapes they originally recorded. Installed in Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth, the works bridge the distance between an era before the widespread combustion of fossil fuels and the climate emergency unfolding today.
Chemically burned by the sun, these cyanotype flags become both image and testimony. Their surfaces evoke the fragility of memory and landscape alike. They bear witness to a planet transformed by human activity and to the accelerating rise in temperatures, that is disproportionately impacting compromised indigenous communities and the future habitability of the Earth.