Betsy Cain is a visual artist and environmental activist living on the marsh on the coast of Georgia. Since 2007 she and her husband, photographer David Kaminsky, have been responding to and documenting the severe environmental impacts of a neighbor's state permitted nine-hundred-and-eighty-foot dock that reaches out into the shallow tidal estuary of Tom Creek on Wilmington Island in Savannah, Ga. Their response has been on two basic fronts: as residents concerned for the health of the estuary/salt marsh in front of their home and as artists deeply tied to and influenced by their natural environment.
This response has inspired action in several realms including a local community-level conservation effort and a highly personal, artistic response, as well as a public dialogue of philosophical and ethical dimension.The exhibit explores both an artistic interpretation and a pragmatic exercise in environmental conservation, raising questions and challenges to understand complex eco-systems and the socio-political-cultural processes of how societies affect and are affected by their natural environments.
visit www.tomscreek.info for more of information about this ongoing situation.
Music: Jarkko Hietanen-Sparkles in Her Eyes
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