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| Zach Mazur, photographer |
In 2007, I began traveling the 586-square-mile perimeter of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, mostly out of curiosity, in order to photograph this remote and threatened landscape. Due to the high level of security at the site, I am constricted to photographing within the small gap of land between the highways and the fence line- often placing my tripod on the opposite side of the fence in order to make a photograph, so as not to trespass. As a consequence, these photographs depict a “border-land” containing clues alluding to two conflicting landscapes- the natural/inhabited, the public/private, and the endangered/healthy. |
| Doug Gast, multi-media |
The Chain Reaction installation consists of: a projected video loop, an audio loop, a looped interview with Robert Smith (a retired Hanford worker), an ink drawing on a declassified document (outlining the problem Hanford continues to face with contaminated tumbleweeds, mounted on a bulletin board), 177 tin containers filled with green colored water, four tumbleweeds collected from around the Hanford site (placed under plexiglas), green florescent lighting, and a tumbleweed relocation performance (Hundreds of tumbleweeds were collected from around the Hanford site, loaded into a cargo truck, and later released in the most popular park in town.) |
 Photography by artist, Zach Mazur. |
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