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The vernacular of chronic illness through image making.

C. Matthew Luther

Saturday, March 08 - 3:00PM to 3:30PM
Tuscany 10

A look at 10 years documenting Superfund Sites and hazardous waste areas around the country. Locations of disease and despair where people are absent, the activity is extinct and what remains are cancerous levels of PCBs or heavy metals. It is a profound reality that what is left behind will make us ill or push us near death. The extinction of production leaves a residue of invisible hazards. Diseases in turn contribute to an economy of health care like a "sick" persistent cycle of land pollution that is genetically altering the human body to depend on adapting to disease.

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C. Matthew Luther
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