What Can Be Washed Away: It’s Not like Anyone Ever Died of Capitalism is a project that highlights the very unnatural causes of the events that our culture labels “natural disasters.” It seeks to question the motives behind the man-made decisions that affect both racial oppression and environmental degradation.
The Postcard Project is a mail art piece that pairs photographs of clear cut land with text about the human decisions that led up to Hurricane Katrina, and the inhumane things that happened in its wake. The postcards were ultimately addressed to famous New Orleans citizens who grew up in one of the Big Four public housing projects that were torn down after the flood and to doctors who worked in the now defunct Charity Hospital. The postcards went through the postal system and were rejected and sent back. The project asks: What are we rejecting when we shut out the other and the poor? And what fuels both racism and environmental degradation?
