Still video image from Amy Kaczur’s video series “Messages From the Marsh,’’ at Kingston Gallery, Boston, for July.
The Boston-based artist’s Web site says:
“Amy’s work is grounded in environmental concerns, community and language. Her latest projects are fueled by a sense of urgency related to water issues, specifically coastal flood zones and rising sea levels. Her work resides within the natural world; along with sensory stimulation and deep wonderment, following closely is the sense of perilous climate change and ecological grief. Amy grew up outside Cleveland, with family ties working in farming, food industry, mills, and coal mines in rural Southern Ohio to the edges of Appalachia. Those roots impacted her experience of landscape and environmental issues such as pollution and climate change, and the multilayered struggles between land use and conservation. Along with examining these issues in her art practice, she works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the group administrator for two research labs focused on air and water pollution, climate change, and clean energy development and storage. She continuously develops her art practice, supported by relentless research, discovery by experiment, and the pleasure of inquisitive searching.’’
Common reed (Phragmites australis), an invasive species in degraded marshes in New England.
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