Landuse

Land use is personal, political, and industrial, but 
it is also contextual. For example, a sixth generation 
land-dweller, an oil and gas executive, and the worker 
of a river barge on the Mississippi utilize the same
landscape, but often with disparate interests, making
it difficult to elucidate shared definitions of value, 
ownership, and interconnectedness. As corporate 
encroachment and aggregate industry denature 
local communities, elegiac documentation suggests 
we must look to the future implications of land misuse. 
It is imperative that we ask ourselves who the changes 
are affecting and what remains to be lost?

Photos by Anne Senstad