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ARCHES
We sewed a tent printed with creative commons tourist photos from Arches National Park and set it up at the Devil's Garden campground. Until recently, there were no water sources in Arches - visitors had to bring in all the water they would need. Although every year tourists would die of heat stroke, it wasn't until an influx of international visitors had trouble using the composting toilets that the Park built bathrooms and installed running water at several locations. We set the tent up at one of these new facilities and photographed it. We also shot video of tourists taking pictures, and that footage is projected onto the side of the tent. What is the difference between our portrayals of public land and the actual experience? |
CANYONLANDS
Next we went to Canyonlands, where we stopped at the seven scenic overlooks in the Islands in the Sky section of the park. At each spot, we parked the teardrop camper and set up the camera obscura. We blocked out all of the windows of the camper, only allowing light in through a small hole. That hole acts as a lens, projecting an upside down image of the view outside the camper onto the interior of the space. |
ZION
Zion is one of the most popular parks in the United States, and we arrived just as the pandemic was fully taking hold. The relative off-season solitude we enjoyed at the previous parks was replaced with crowds that suddenly seemed ominous. We had already collected dozens of postcards depicting the roadways through the park, which are limited due to the narrow tunnel all traffic must go through when entering Zion from the south. We embellished these postcards with the glass beads that are mixed into road paint to make it reflective. We were not able to enter the visitor's center to see how the postcard offerings have been updated in recent decades. |