Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.
"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn Iâve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.
âForced into a great and difficult transformationâ was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place thatâs been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."
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