the green issue Assistant Professor of Art Michelle Acuff recently was invited to an artist residency at Playa in southernoregon. She took this image of a piece she completed at Playa. She said her work “is related thematically to my larger investigations in which I’m trying to ‘visu- alize’ pernicious environmental damage that is mostly invisible (global warming, pesticides, other toxins, etc.). I’m recurring to highly aestheticized means (the bright colors, forms, contrasts), because it’s really hard to understand issues without having a visual reference for it, like oil covered pelicans, for example. And they are related to my previous work, too, in that they try to pronounce my alienation from the landscape/natural world. Not to celebrate it, but to more honestly assess where we are at as a culture.” Photo courtesy of Michelle Acuff 32 Whitman Magazine
Whitman Magazine July 2012
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