LENSCRATCH - A Thousand Beautiful Lies and Contaminated 2024/12/10
A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure to attend two exhibitions at the Center for Creativity in Fort Collins, CO, presented by the Center for Fine Art Photography: Center Forward and A Thousand Beautiful Lies. A Thousand Beautiful Lies was curated by Hamidah Glasgow and features artwork by acclaimed artists Shayla Blatchford, Abbey Hepner, Bootsy Holler, Kei Ito, Patrick Nagatani, and Will Wilson.
This exhibition investigates the nuclear environmental and humanitarian legacy by exploring the agency and place of those directly affected by lasting impacts. Each artist explores issues of atomic legacy through lived experience and personal biographies affected by atomic legacies.
It’s a profound exhibition and the work of Bootsy Holler is a stand-out. CONTAMINATED is a layered historical exploration of the people affected by the secrets that the United States Government kept during the Manhattan Project, their subsequent illnesses, and the polluted land in eastern Washington State at the Hanford Nuclear site.
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