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Re-examining Nature: Built, Found, and Bought

GRID Abandonment: Fade to Black - Spring 2018

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FADE TO BLACK

As the climate continues to change, environmental degradation persists. Species, places, and generational knowledge and culture are swallowed into the dark depths of time. Memories are fractured, families are displaced. Rootless and floating through space and time in the age of eco-anxiety and solastalgia, we cling to the blurry fragments of the past to reconstruct and therefore cope with environmental loss and abandonment. Yet time is rushing forward; you can never go back, it all fades to black. 

 

 

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La Gloria
Michael Krondl

"This video consists of manipulated footage from the U.S. Virgin Island of St. John, shot approximately 6 months prior to the two hurricanes that devastated the island in the fall of 2017."

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24/7
E.E. King

 "Just tired, aren’t we all, he thought. He tried to remember a time he hadn’t been. But he could not. He had been born after the 24-hour day, born after the move underground."

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If Nothing Changed, There Would Never Be Butterflies
Ari Mokdad

"But this; the hitchhiker’s guide to time travel and seeing the world— the way the good always comes with the bad and not even the engineers/ could help design a way out."

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Karst Topography
Christopher Ruff

"Here: the seven layers of our limestone lives/ are pockmarked and dissolving— underground rivers carving out caves/ until there is nothing left—"

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Radiation Stories
Kayla Dwyer

"The rumor mill churns quickly in a small suburb. In 1968, it churned out talk of an unusual amount of farmland being sold in Limerick, Pennsylvania." 

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Blight
Erin Jamieson

"drought is waking up/ and reaching for a husband/ drought is eating     nothing/ & still choking..."
 

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El Niño
Lori Anne Gravely

"Sky the same shade as sea, but/ I see difference between the two,/ between devil and deep blue/
or in this case, almost black reflection/ of darkening sky."

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Due North
Melissa Bobe

"She was left with the cold and the lonely singing of the wind. She shut her eyes. Black. Opened them. White. Black, white, black, white, and she kept them closed, hoping for something that might not come."

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Formless Malevich Composition Sketch Text @ à la Musée NonNoveLizst φράζω Sagacity Finnaga Sakí. 
Rose Knapp

"Saudi Catalan salt sands
London bells blare black grime"

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She Didn't Go Home
Randy Gonzales

"Elvie was not jaded, nor angered. She put no blame on the place, the people, or the economic situation that brought them there. She was mourning."
 

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At the End 
timothy martin

"at the end of the world/ you will see someone/ and thank the great god bird as you/ embrace the pulse of this endangered life..."
 

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Lying Beside a Fish Looking at the Light
 Hannah Bissell

"Each thing a meeting of light and object, shadows laid out—imperfect aspects in praise of light, form, their joining, and earth’s tenuous orbit..."

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After the Israeli Army Burned Our Land, We Remember the Olives
Ari Mokdad

"My family’s stories of jalewehal, that lingering sweetness/ of kashta on Eid, are the memories we cling to remember."

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Dominique Robin
Sarah Butler
Marieken Cochius
Martine Mooijenkind
Rebeka Fergusson-Lutz
Cathy Immordino
Peter Kahn
Seigar
Michael Krondl

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The Alluvian is an online journal integrating science, nonfiction narratives, and creative responses to environmental change. We promote sustainable engagement with nature through critical analysis, collaborative discussion, and systems thinking.

 
 
 

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