Jaclyn Wright’s Blaze Orange Uses Photography to Question the “American West”

Installation photograph, Jaclyn Wright: High Visibility (Blaze Orange), (photo by Zachary Norman, © UMOCA). Article by Scotti Hill. Hyperallergic – April 7, 2022.

SALT LAKE CITY — In late 2020, Utah made headlines as the location of a mysterious monolith, a nearly 10-foot-tall structure unlawfully placed in the desert by anonymous persons on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The act of infringing upon protected space without permission, and the subsequent destruction of the site’s ecology by the ensuing pilgrimage of eager fans, raised questions about access and the consumption of public lands. […]

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