Photographic intervention including archival image of the Cerro Prieto dam headgate. Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado / High Country News
Cover thumbnail: Grandfather and children in canal, circa 1970. Sigfredo González / High Country News
A Cartography of Loss in the Borderlands
High Country News, 21 February 2024
“For del Bosque, Sevilla, Miranda and their community of collaborators, the absence of the Colorado River and the waters it nourished forms a cartography of loss that is written on the landscape. Their mission is to make those absences visible — to keep their memories alive, and to imagine possibilities for the future.
‘They are bodies of water that have been exploited and that may never recover their normal ecology — they’ve experienced irreversible damage,’ said del Bosque. ‘Loss is woven into everything we do.’”
High Country News, 21 February 2024
“For del Bosque, Sevilla, Miranda and their community of collaborators, the absence of the Colorado River and the waters it nourished forms a cartography of loss that is written on the landscape. Their mission is to make those absences visible — to keep their memories alive, and to imagine possibilities for the future.
‘They are bodies of water that have been exploited and that may never recover their normal ecology — they’ve experienced irreversible damage,’ said del Bosque. ‘Loss is woven into everything we do.’”