Generational Effects of Water

11x17, risograph print. 2022

This piece was the second of four to be created throughout the 2022 One Water Artist Residency. It tells the story of Black generational trauma and how it impacts multi generational families in the Madison area and was created in collaboration with a focus group of Black and Brown participants. In the style of ledger art created by Plains nations, the design is printed on a page from the plans for the Nine Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the water is created using a picture of the Yahara river where it joins the Rock river taken by me.