valentino loyola
This work contemplates our current environmental state of distress, and how Indigenous practices must be prevalent in the fight against climate change as a sustainable approach.
A composite image around caring for our environment in the way we care for our bodies with protection, preservation, and good health in mind.
Speculative-imaginative photographic composite that considers rising sea levels, how the melting ice caps in Greenland affect the Bay Area, among other critical spaces (the Marshall Islands for example), and wonderment of how humans will adapt/respond.
A creative expression of a hopeful future for all through love and poetic collaboration between people and land.
2. Valentino Loyola observes his work in progress as he prepares to photograph them.
3. A forward view of four mixed media panels that aim to address climate justice, described below:
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a) the history of redlining marginalized communities.
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b) the levee breach at the Pajaro River in Pajaro, CA due to the atmospheric river of March 2023.1
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c) Groundwater contamination due to failed underground petroleum vessels in an East Side San Jose community, between Sunset and Jackson Ave on Alum Rock Ave.2
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d) Solidarity and community organizing victories e.g., Mothers of East Los Angeles consisted of mothers/women with the spirit of motherhood from the Boyle Heights community during the early to mid-eighties who organized to prevent an incinerator plant from being developed in their community.3
1 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/us/california-storm-pajaro-levee.html
2 https://sanjosespotlight.com/east-san-jose-residents-demand-environmental-justice/
3 Pardo, Mary. “Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: ‘Mothers of East Los Angeles.’” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 11, no. 1 (1990): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.2307/3346696.
2 https://sanjosespotlight.com/east-san-jose-residents-demand-environmental-justice/
3 Pardo, Mary. “Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: ‘Mothers of East Los Angeles.’” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 11, no. 1 (1990): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.2307/3346696.
humanity is the message.