#artificial corridors

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Found some great old trunks to transport [subset of the archive} for this summer's #ArtificialCorridors project. Going to carry a curio collection of representative samples of pollution, from sediment and soil gathered in the Buffalo River, Love Canal, Manhattan Project, to water samples from Scajaquada Creek and the recent BP oil spill in Lake Michigan, to slough of my own embodied perspective in the wastestream and pollution chain, like dust bunnies from under my bed and pet waste from my adorable pit bull. More photos soon, as I add to the archive.

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An image from last month, when parking lots around here were still covered in huge piles of hard-pack snow, ice, salt, oil, and other gunk. Collecting samples for this summer's #ArtificialCorridors project from the Buffalo Target parking lot as the runoff drains into combined sewer lines and, with so much rain, snow, and precipitation this spring, directly into Lake Erie and the Niagara River.

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As part of Erie Basin Meets Erie Basin, Vol. III: Artificial Corridors, collecting, documenting, and indexing has begun for [subset of the archive]. In this sample: all drug I've found since moving to buffalo

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Cleaning begins on discarded glass and plastic containers for the #ArtificialCorridors curio cabinet of pollution and discard sample collection gathered around #GreatLakes & #StLawrenceRiver basin.

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Erie Basin Meets Erie Basin, Vol. III: Artificial Corridors is GO!

The third iteration of my series of projects documenting historic trade routes and relationships, uneven development, ecological injustice, and other factors and externalities of the obsolete (but still remnant) Erie Canal transport route between Buffalo and NYC is entitled "Artificial Corridors," after work by William Cronon, et al. This summer, I will pilot a small motorboat from the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo's Inner Harbor across the state via the NYS Canal System, down the Hudson River, to the former terminus of the Erie Canal at the Erie Basin breakwater in Red Hook's South Brooklyn waterfront. I'll be carrying with me as cargo a curio cabinet of found pollution samples gathered at such sites around the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin as soil from Love Canal and lead-heavy sites of demoed Buffalo houses: water from the recent BP oil spill along the NW Indiana coast of Lake Michigan and from the open sewer CSO of Scajaquada Creek: mercury, dioxin, and PCB laden sediment from the Buffalo River; microplastics from water-borne facial scrubbing products releasing tiny plastic beads into the Great Lakes and food chain; and much more. Follow Erie Basin Meets Erie Basin in more detail here: http://eriebasinmeetseriebasin.tumblr.com https://twitter.com/ebasin2ebasin http://eriebasinmeetseriebasin.wordpress.com http://recycledcarbon.com/hydronym.html