Arroyos untouched
2023 CE • Costa Azul, Uruguay
Costa Azul, Uruguay is not like it was before. My aunts and uncles tell me stories of when the arroyos or swamps were untouched, and the flowers were untouched, and the flowers were in their full splendor. All before rapid urbanization arrived.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022-2023
Image: Felipe Restrpo Acosta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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