Connecting Dots From the Personal to the Political

“Connecting Dots,” Photograph by Aviva Rahmani 1997, the moment when fresh water met salt water as part of the Ghost Nets Project (1990—2000) for the first time in 100 years, after excavating made land to daylight an estuary.

In this article I will explore some questions that seem to be emerging in our times, that concern me as an artist. The world seems poised at an historic inflection: what do we deem worthy of protection? Art and artists are as much at the center of that inflection as education, wealth gaps or the destruction of the ecosystems humans depend upon.