Aviva Rahmani
2021Desecration/Resurrection
Aviva Rahmani
In the spring of 2010 as the British Petroleum oil spill unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico, a restored intertidal salt marsh, Ghost Nets, in the Gulf of Maine was coming back to life. This is a split screen time lapse of each of those events as they took place between April and July. The British Petroleum disaster in the Gulf of Mexico happened seven days before 'Resurrection' began recording life returning to the Ghost Nets site. The Ghost Nets site, whose restoration began in 1990 as an ecological art project, had previously been a strip mined coastal town dump. There is hope for the Gulf of Mexico and the world, even in the face of calamity.
Desecration/Resurrection
Earth Time
Aviva Rahmani
Earth Time is a compilation of sequential stills taken every hour, during daylight hours. It begins seven days after the April 20, 2010 British Petroleum Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and ends December 3rd, 2013, representing three years, seven months and seven days of regeneration from Ghost Nets, a wetlands restoration project that began April 15, 1997
Earth Time