Will Wilson’s Portraits of Survivance

Image caption: Will Wilson, Auto-Immune Response (2005), multi-media installation detail, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (all images courtesy the artist). Article by Susannah Abbey. Hyperallergic – June 22, 2022.

One little-known legacy of the Cold War is the hundreds of abandoned uranium mines (AUMs) across Indigenous lands in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico that at one time provided ore for nuclear bombs. Although the mines are closed now, they are by no means inert. Disposal sites contain tailings and contaminated building materials such as concrete blocks and rebar that release radioactive dust into the air when the wind blows across the desert, and radioactive silt into nearby water bodies when it rains. […]

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