Artists as Archeologists of Wildfire
By Robert Chianese
Debris from catastrophic fires has become an artistic medium to raise environmental consciousness.
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November-December 2021
Volume 109, Number 6
Page 346
So many fires are raging in the western part of the United States at any one time that it’s difficult to keep in memory their names, locations, intensities, areas consumed, firefighters mustered, houses and structures burned, and, sadly, lives lost. Each new fire in California contends for the title of the biggest yet. We seem to run out of hyperbole in describing them and communicating their horrors.
Image courtesy of the author with permission of the artist.
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