We Need To Be Humble To What Comes

SeedBroadcast in collaboration with Acoma Ancestral Lands Farm Corp Program, Española Healing Foods Oasis/ Tewa Women United, Mer-Girl Gardens, and Tse Daa K’aan Lifelong Learning Community, and Seed Stewards.

This mud cloud mural is composed of words and painted in clay and earth gathered from throughout New Mexico. The colors of clay represent the different soils present in the bioregion and include soils given to us from New Mexico farmers. The words are aggregated key words taken from Seed Stories featured in the exhibition and from a SeedBroadcast Seed Story Workshop at the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance Seed Summit. The shape of the mural is a graph representing the carbon footprint of the world beginning 400,000 years ago, when people first started evolving the landscape through today. The data of the graph was reconstructed from ice cores collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and describes the historical high of carbon dioxide at 300 parts per million (ppm), and contrasts that by surpassing the global average in the 1950s with today’s levels of over 380 ppm.

Locally sourced clay and earth