Patterns of Contamination, 2022

Risograph print

Kozo rice paper

Edition of 9

11 inches x 34 inches

Printed at Risolana in Albuquerque, NM

Patterns of Contamination reveals how patterns of exploitation in the Permian Basin exasperate atmospheric carbon dioxide, methane emissions, health impacts, water contamination, environmental injustice, and legacies of ongoing settler-colonialism on stolen land.

Thought of as a “story map”, the print comes with a key (5.5” x 12”) to guide the experience of the artwork and to provide additional context to the arts-based research process for How to Love a Mesquite: Towards Multispecies Collaboration for the Upper Chihuahuan Desert.