Site 01: Living Soil Library
Site 02: quarry for rock-time
Site 03: soil-sensitive walk
Site 04: healing soil garden
HISTORICAL SITE RESEARCH
Methodology: This research into the region of the Lost River Subbasin draws on three types of primary sources: visual and document archives, maps, and in-person site visits. While analyzing each of these sources separately gives some insight into the history of a place, I look for the way they intersect to read a more complex place-based history that allows for agency in multiple places: the visible agency of government and policy seen in maps and common historical narratives; the hidden agency of marginalized communities or individuals which as read through photo archives and in-person interviews; and the material agency of the physical environment which underlies all three sources. Archives and maps are already presented to us through a particular point of view that sparked their creation and dissemination. This inevitably emphasizes some things and hides others. By triangulating different archives and maps with a physical site, I speculate a complex place-based history from the spaces in-between.