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Still polluting Wilmington and Long Beach, California. What happened to media coverage.

Tracing pollution moving from Willminton - Long Beach. They call them the “Sacrifice Zone”

Sunday morning walk after the mowing – soot, gunk, residue, blue heron, pelicans pollution. Los Angeles RIver Long Beach. Before the rains?

Soundscape 4: experimenting with ways to visualize the pollution that is causing long term health problems in and around animals, urban areas and Los Angeles RIver, Long Beach, CA.

Air Quality – AQI – 59 : that means polluted. Tanks and refineries and cargo make sound. Hmpf – pollution

It’s very simple. This was filmed while walking the Los Angeles River. Don’t you love the ducks and prancing horse! The AQS – that’s the air quality hovered around MODERATE – what is that? Not good The sound was recorded in Wilmiington / TheNard – a street corner – Anaheim & Nth Henry Dr. intersection. Lots and lots of trucks and a refinery that is not named on MAPS. The AQS – POLLUTED – what…

It’s my obsession. Like the Canary in the coal mine. I want to use my practice of art (the canary) as a sensitivity meter for communities along the LA RIver Long Beach – Cancer alley . Art can be a useful exploration tool, an early indicator. A starting point for change. 

It’s been a l l l o o n g time coming

By the bye – LA to NYC

The best way to say good bye to your son is to drive them accross country in the middle of a pandemic …… THe problem is we did’t get but 2 blocks before we stopped and then turned arund – forgot something. We got gas …stopped for lunch in a deserted town and diego lost his wallet … sp we drove around town. The days were long in the car – so Love’s BBQ roadside cafe was a must

12 days 11 nights 10 walks

one small shadow and one fake lake – Prescott

a desert view – a home – a lost american dream

a swap meet and a treasures

gotta have ya gun – arts & crafts destival – Prescott

a buffalo – Flagstaff

a window sill – winslow Arizona

Grand Canyon

A bridge – Monument Valley –

My toilet – Airbnb – Navajo Land

A mural on Navajo Land – Shiprock

Totems holding up motel entrance –…

THIS IS  A SIMPLE SCREEN SHOT OF THE ANIMATION

THIS IS A LINK TO THE YOU TUBE VIDEO

a video that shows how to use a mask in aftereffects

a video that show how to move an object across a page

washing and cleaning for spirituality on the ghats

morning wInter haze, fish jumpling man washing for spirituality, boats for tourists

just sitting is a row after pilgrimage, cleaning simple idol mandir

huge vats of morning breakfast for the pilgrims – harvest festival – same as kite festival

morning run – cow and drying clothes – no clue what the field growth is.

orange a sacred color – spicess…

2  Heads

Hesson bags –  a living for the poor while A sari becomes a bag to cover a motor bike in a private garage.

A conflict of cultures remain one street apart. Proud to be a woman street market  fruit seller. A modern attachment to an old bazzar facade – pround to be modern

Performance is a staple  – 2 friends sitting on a bike dyed orange – Rajwada, Indore A driver and his truck – Ujjain

A Kite – or 2, Harvest festival tomorrow – although this was 2 weeks ago – bad internet

So I revisited Sewadham Ashram  – a community for the homeless and disabled. Well basically those left on the streets due to disability, divorce or old age.

The women with some babies – such a delight to hug and chat – well my Hindi makes that hard but a cookie or 2 works.

The men 200+++ – thats the size of a huge HS sports auditorium

 Urdan life  with  milk delivery.

Roadtrip – visited the amazing Kumbaya – https://www.kumbaya.co.in/ a sewing venture in rural Madhyra Pradesh. Part of my attempt to connect makers with designers. – Any designer or maker or traveller or just interested person – click and explore

In dia – a voyeuristic mythical journey

It is soo fucking complicated – so I not much to say – just a few visuals from a cultural youeur – by the way I am now in Rural India and the internet connection sucks.

Who ever says digital access  = equality in India – is WRONG. now internet – OH is the response

The mythical Mumbai – or Bombay, depends who you speak to.

The Brassy  – a few heavy trinkets – night street markets

The experimental –

a pequeno visita Mexico

Never under estimate a little Australian who can’t sit still. HOw do I start?

piggy bank fruit juice

Awesome pig BBQ

Balloon fish floating in market restaurant tank display

Plastic covered cansy for quinceanera | confirmation | or something else religious?

but it is really all about street attire?

or what is underneath – a fantastic vintage drawing at the medical museum. – Mexico city is all…

FLOW _obstruction or diversion

Process: a systematic series of actions directed to some end:

What started out as a simple interest has turned into a mapping of our process.

Like a list we have documented our experience through sound, photo & performance and video

FLOW:

OBSTRUCTION:

DIVERSION: