A layered set of images showing in the main central area, in a linear format, from left to right, (1): an aerial image of a marsh suffering from an oil spill; (2): a "marsh organ"- a device designed to restore marshes and accumulate sediment that looks like the top of a pipe organ, filled with grass. The device is set in an estuary amidst a water- and marsh-scape; (3) an image that has a billboard within it that reads "WELCOME TO LENAPE LANDS #PAVONIA 1643 WE ARE STILL HERE" set atop a vintage film still of the New Jersey Turnpike stretching over the Meadowlands in the early 1950s. Set behind the three images running from left to right is another aerial image of the Meadowlands marsh and Hackensack River estuary. The image shows clusters of marsh amidst water. The marsh appears as if it is eroding and diminishing with rising seas or incoming tides.
⑶ Charlotte's dissertation examines how meadow plants, technologies & ideologies shaped patterns of growth/obsolescence #climatechange & #urbanization along the #NortheasternAtlanticSeaboard during the transition from the organic to fossil economies using the #NJ #Meadowlands as a central case study