By Viola Arduini
Angel Peak, Four Corners, NM
September 22, 2017
Excerpt from infrared video of a gas flare, some goats around
The Four Corners region is a heart-wrenching land.
Beautiful and fierce as the South West often is, it is also a land of deep, human-made, wounds. The metal pipes cut and pierce the ground, the noise and the smell are sometimes unbearable. Sonny told me "Look at that, knife blades inside the flesh of our mother Earth". I follow her gaze to a big oil pump. A mix of anger, sadness and frustration made my heart accelerating.
Sometimes, there is a cloud of methane on the region that is visible from the space. On the other hands, stars are becoming more difficult to see now from Chaco Canyon due to gas and light pollution in the area.
We all felt sick on the first few days at Angel Peak. But we eventually left, toward new sites. What happens to all those people, human and non, that have their home on that suffering land?
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