The Exhibition
The collection is comprised of nearly one hundred prints. Most contain images photographed within the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant... paired with similar images photographed within the evacuation zone of our local nuke plant, Vermont Yankee.
The images are printed on vinyl with some sort of indestructable ink. I watched the printer pour turpentine on one of the prints. He wiped it off with a cloth and the image remained without a smudge. This would come in handy in light of the absense of a venue for our first showings.
We created our guerilla gallery in the heart of the local exacuation zone, conveniently already drawing a crowd of local art patrons on the first Friday of each month.
Welcome to Gallery Walk in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Opening Night :: July 7, 2006
 The paired images are unnerving to most viewers here. They immediately recognize familliar places -- our schools and shops, the farmer's market -- and only then begin to recognize the disturbing before and after relationship shared with a strangely similar image from the other side of the world.
Where there was once life is now death and once fertile, life-sustaining land is now condemned to toxicity. A single accident destroyed this region and spread its carcinogens across greater Europe. That seems enough reason to avoid the risk, doesn't it?
The Chernobyl, Vermont images seem to bypass the filter so often used to buffer oneself from the activitsts shouting their wake-up calls. They make the connections easily between the possible risks and their actual manifestations. If we're lucky, they will be the alarm clock we've needed to wake the community from complacency into action to close these plants down.
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Forward Motion :: August 4, 2006
 Returning to Gallery Walk in August, a box truck was converted into a makeshift gallery for the night.
There are just a few photos from the evening as the lighting was a bit of a challenge. View the photos from FORWARD MOTION >
The Alley Wall :: October 6, 2006
We secured our first legitimate location for October's Gallery Walk; a brick wall along an alley on Elliot Street. With proper lighting, great weather and all of the images on a single wall, we had an ideal space for viewing and discussing the work.
An old friend who happens to be the former editor-in-chief for a well-known weekly journal of politics and culture noted that this was the most exciting thing she had seen all evening.
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