Clean Rivers
Personal memory by Hector Humberto Ibarno Castellonos
1985 • San Cristobal, Mexico
“I remember from when I was younger, that there were many more trees and the rivers didn't have any plastic floating in them. In the current you would see hundreds of trees and hundreds of birds like parakeets, parrots, magpies, toucans, woodpeckers, and macaws that don't exist anymore in Tabasco.I remember my grandfather used to tell me that on the beach there used to be jaguars, deer, sheep, armadillos, and the water was clean. Nowadays, all you see are the towers from the oil wells and the water is contaminated.”
Maya Lin, Global Residency Program
Creative Time / Rockefeller Foundation
Learn about Maya Lin’s fifth and final memorial: a multi-platform science based artwork that presents an ecological history of our world - past, present, and future.
Discover ecological histories and stories of former abundance, loss, and recovery on the map of memory.
Learn how we can reduce our emissions and protect and restore species and habitats – around the world.
See how art can help us rethink the problems we face, and give us hope that each one of us can make a difference.
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