Beautiful Midden
Restoring Land Through Art Activism and Education

Project Visual Overview

  • Looking north up the Rio Grande Gorge with its many side canyons
  • Looking south on the Rio Grande just below the confluence of the Rio Pueblo de Taos
  • Looking south down the Rio Pueblo de Taos Canyon
  • Looking north towards the confluence on the Rio Grande
  • The confluence with the Rio Grande
  • Trailhead for the Slide Trail leading to the Midden Site
  • The area supports a multitude of wildlife connected to the water flow
  • The end of Taos County Road 110
  • The moody canyon of the Rio Pueblo de Taos
  • White paint dumped over the rim
  • Trash moves through basalt flows in the side arroyo
  • Tire in water
  • The rim
  • The children's Midden group
  • Target glass and bones
  • Target canyon sky
  • Target canyon sky
  • Target canyon sky
  • Smashed computer leaching toxins
  • Sick racoon amongst trash
  • Riddled and beyond
  • 'Ol 08, the purple car
  • Midden Temple from the base of the side arroyo
  • Culvert group
  • Boulders integrate automobile
  • Big screen tv, now an unholy trough
  • Who is going to pick it all up?
  • Used diaper pile
  • Two televisions
  • Piled on piles
  • One of hundreds of discarded toys
  • Navity group
  • Mounds and mountains
  • Large furniture and construction debris
  • Figures
  • Decomposing mattress
  • Clothing pile measuring 60 by 30 feet
  • Child amongst trash
  • Chair in heap
  • Ample load of construction debris
  • A lot of everything
  • Shot up radioactive waste drum, Miranda Canyon
  • Closeup of radioactive waste drum
  • The vigil at dusk
  • The Bachelor Party Marching Band and evening offering
  • Teddy Potty message
  • New signs for Taos County Midden sites
  • Lead toxin information added to tv target
  • Contra base offering on the point
  • Contemplative chair
  • A firearm response to a simple request
  • Ben on camera for the trash camera ball
  • The trash camera ball in the retreival wok
  • The trash camera ball after the drop
  • Installing the can phone
  • Bradford recording the weight of the wind at the can phone
  • Can phone lines down
  • Can phone closeup
  • Cans and 200 feet of line
  • Children using the can phone
  • Great reception at the can phone
  • Can phone cap continues the conversation
  • Whitish case corner
  • Three objects
  • The trash camera ball presented in retrieval wok
  • Photo refrigerator and observation
  • Large photos and reflective statement
  • Distorted lead slugs
  • Detail of refrigerator interior
  • Clear, distilled and cased
  • Casing in a case
  • Archeology case and large photos
  • Vista Grande 10th graders with their improvised installation message created with materials from the children's midden pile
  • Vista Grande teachers Ned Dougherty and Ms T. at the midden site
  • Vista Grande High School 10th graders interview each other at the children's midden while gathering materials for installations
  • Vista Grande High School Art and Activism Class gather materials for improvised installations
  • Ideas for an afternoon at the site with Vista Grande 10th grade
  • Chrysalis High School can phone re-installation preparations
  • Chrysalis High School students finishing the re-installation of the can phone
  • Chrysalis High School students on the south side, can phone re-install
  • Chrysalis High School students during can phone re-install
  • Lorenzo Gutierrez from Taos Solid Waste addressing students at Vista Grande High School
  • Vista Grande seniors interviewing sophomores on the participation in creating the mural
  • Harvested raw materials
  • Beginning classroom work on individual squares, Vista Grande High School
  • Beginning to assemble the squares
  • 'Trash is Like a Disease, It Spreads Everywhere' finished work
  • Vista Grande 10th grade sign detail
  • Bullet casings, class work, Vista Grande High School
  • Breaking down and reordering trash
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