Monthly Conversations

Interviews with Social Artists, Uncommon Heroes

March 22, 2017

From the Editor

Richard Whittaker
In #40 we return to the environment with Daniel McCormick and Mary O'Brien who describe their work as remedial environmental art. In spite its multiple challenges and the fact that their work "disappears" as their interventions takes hold, these two have lost none of their passion... [more]

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Restoration - Daniel McCormick and Mary O'Brien

The simplest way to explain how what we do may be different from, say, the work of a fluvial geomorphologist is that we bring an artist's perspective. We do have a lot of scientific knowledge and before we work on a site, we absolutely have to meet with the site steward, the conservation manager and scientists - and that's not always easy. They're often like, "We're going to meet with an artist??"

Mark Dubois - How Do We Wake Up?

In 1979 Mark Dubois chained himself to bedrock as the water rose in the New Melones reservoir. "It was one of the quietest weeks of my life. I heard the searching motorboats and helicopters, but I had this perfect hidden place. It was fascinating to watch how quick the days went. A lizard came out on a rock at a certain time and the beavers at another time, and the otters at another. It was amazing just to watch the sunrise and the sunset."