Sopita Instantanea
Empaque sopa instantanea (Instant soup pack)
Benjamin w/ Maria Elizabeth Paguada
Playa Cedeño, Choluteca, Honduras
13°23'27.0"N 87°22'28.12"W
19 de mayo 2022
Cambio en dinámica de playa (Change in beach dynamics)

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¿Vives de donde vino el objeto? Si.
¿Cuál es su relación con ese lugar? Habitante de la comunidad.
¿Qué ha visto desaparecer allí, ambientalmente, o de otra manera? Inundaciones, perdida de campamento tortuguera.
¿Qué significan esas desapariciones? Más pobreza a la comunidad.
¿Cuál es su relación con los objectos que contribuyó? Consumo de alimentos.

Do you live where the object came from? Yes.
What is your relationship with that place? Community inhabitant.
What have you seen disappear there, environmentally, or otherwise? Flooding, loss of the turtles’ camp.
What do these disappearances mean? More poverty to the community.
What is your relationship to the objects you contributed? Food consumption.

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HONDURAS COLLECTION
05.22/6166
Non-Annex I

Pedazo de silla de plástico del negocio que perdió (Piece of plastic chair from the business that she lost)
Plástico (Plastic)
Erica Isabel Cerrato Aquedano
Cedeño, Choluteca, Honduras
15 de mayo 2022
13.1699° N, 87.4282° W

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Desde 1985 trabaja en el bar. Perdió 4 negocios. Los ha reconstruido con su esposo, que es pescador, como toda la familia.

Since 1985 she has worked in the bar. She’s lost four businesses. She has rebuilt them with her husband, who is a fisherman, like the whole family.

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HONDURAS COLLECTION
05.22/6164
Non-Annex I

Bolsa de agua de plástico (Plastic water bag)
Plástico (Plastic)
Pacita Romero Avila
Cedeño, Choluteca, Honduras
15 de mayo 2022
13.1699° N, 87.4282° W
Cómo se ve afectada la ubicación por el cambio climático: el pueblo se hunde (How the location is affected by climate change: the town sinks.)

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Perdió su primer negocio con el mar, ahora solo vive allí. Toda la calle se la comió el mar. Ha perdido 2 casas. Toda la zona que era campo fue comida por el mar que es donde nos encontramos ahora, donde tiene su casa.

She lost her first business with the sea, now she just lives there. The whole street was eaten by the sea. She has lost 2 houses. The entire area that was a field was eaten by the sea, which is where we are now, where she has her house.

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HONDURAS COLLECTION
05.22/6163
Non-Annex I

Pedazo de madera grande que era un banco (Large piece of wood that was a bench)
Madera (wood). Pedazo de banquito de madera de la casa
Digna Migdalia Sánchez
Cedeño, Choluteca, Honduras
15 de mayo 2022
13.1699° N, 87.4282° W
Cómo se ve afectada la ubicación por el cambio climático: El mar avanza y la playa ha retrocedido 35 cuadras. (How the location is affected by climate change: The sea advances and the beach has receded 35 blocks.)

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Lleva 30 años trabajando allí, en su chiringuito de la playa. El mar avanza y la playa ha retrocedido 35 cuadras. 10 veces ha tenido que reconstruir su negocio, con su marido. 2015 es a partir de cuando empezó a ser peor. Recuerda el Huracán Mitch. Su marido recuerda que el 30 de abril fue la peor marejada de la Historia. “nosotros ya notamos cuando va a llegar”, dice. Ahí había un kinder y un centro de salud.

She has been working there for 30 years, in her beach bar. The sea advances and the beach has receded 35 blocks. 10 times she has had to rebuild her business, with her husband. 2015 is from when it started to get worse. Remember Hurricane Mitch. Her husband remembers that April 30 was the worst tidal wave in history. “We already noticed when it will arrive,” he says.

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HONDURAS COLLECTION
05.22/6162
Non-Annex I

Pedazo de silla (Piece of chair)
Madera (wood). Parte superior de respaldo de silla de madera
María Auxiliadora Maldonado
Cedeño, Choluteca, Honduras
15 de mayo, 2022
13.1699° N, 87.4282° W
Cómo se ve afectada la ubicación por el cambio climático: el pueblo se está hundiendo. (The town is sinking owing to sea level rise, with tidal surge impacts worsened by mangrove forest loss and shrimp farming.)

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La silla es de uno de los negocios que perdió. Está viendo cómo desaparece la playa. Se está perdiendo el pueblo. Tres veces perdió su negocio, su restaurante. Toda la estructura de madera se desplomó. Recuerda hacia el 2002 como una fecha clave como el inicio del cambio en el mar. Su modo de vida está totalmente dentro del mar. A esta experiencia se une que su hija Daniela se ahogó con 9 años, en 2005, un domingo de ramos. 

The chair is from one of the businesses that she lost. You are watching the beach disappear. The town is being lost. Three times she lost her business, her restaurant. The entire wooden structure collapsed. Remember around 2002 as a key date as the beginning of the change in the sea. Their way of life is entirely within the sea. Added to this experience is the fact that her daughter Daniela drowned at the age of 9, in 2005, on Palm Sunday.

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HONDURAS COLLECTION
05.22/6160
Non-Annex I

Facebook Post titled “Fires in 2 Years Burn All of Lava Beds National Monument”
Screenshot
Murray Bolesta
Lava Beds National Monument, Tulelake, California
Sept 8, 2021 
41.7749° N, 121.5070° W
100% of landscape of Lava Beds National Monument burned over 2 fire seasons, 2020 & 2021

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“EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Due to the Antelope Fire escaping containment and encroaching the western boundary of the park, much of Lava Beds National Monument is now closed to visitors. > At this moment, the road from the main park entrance station at Gillem’s Bluff trailhead parking area to Captain Jacks Stronghold and Hill Road remains OPEN. Petroglyph Point is also open. All other areas and routes remain closed until further notice. The fire is encroaching the portion of the park that did not burn last year in the Caldwell fire of July-August, 2020. For your safety, please obey the closures. We will keep the public informed of once it becomes safe to reopen these areas.”

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CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
10.21/6159
Annex I, II, B

Small pieces of sawn wood from the cleared Varragill Forest
School of Plural Futures with ATLAS Arts
Varragill near Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Highland
10th August 2021
No coordinates provided

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These pieces of wood are from the cleared forest at Glen Varragill, near Sligachan. Plantations of this kind were often established post-war, on areas of moor and drained peatland across the Highlands of Scotland, resulting in a monoculture crop of trees with very little biodiversity. When felled they release carbon into the atmosphere and leave behind extensive areas of land that will take a long time to regenerate.

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SCOTLAND COLLECTION
08.21/6157
Annex I, II, B

Duncan Macpherson’s Map of Skye and Lochalsh
A3 Print
School of Plural Futures with ATLAS Arts, courtesy of Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre
Kyle of Lochlash, Highland
10th August 2021
57.28195, -5.62763
Various: “including rising sea levels and tourism(!)”

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Duncan Macpherson was the chemist in Kyle of Lochalsh, he was also a keen photographer who for over 30 years produced an annual Vest Pocket Guide to Kyle of Lochalsh and the Isle of Skye, printed his own postcards and wrote three books on the area. Macpherson drew this map and sold printed versions to people visiting the area. The map shows different locations in Skye and Lochalsh - including the sites of the objects we have shared for the archive - Waternish, Varrigill, Carbost and Reraig. We were thinking about how the landscape of Skye and Lochalsh has changed from when the map was first drawn in the 1920’s, and how tourism has played a significant role in these changes recently. There are often tensions between tourism’s role in supporting the fragile economy of Skye and Lochalsh, and the environmental and social wellbeing of the area.

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SCOTLAND COLLECTION
08.21/6156
Annex I, II, B