Flooding Fields

What happens when the floodplain is allowed to function? Fish return and flourish, ducks feed, a dynamic ecosystem repairs itself, and the Pacific Flyway inspires awe in anyone who looks up. [Placeholder: Flooding Fields] showcases the work of 25 seniors in the Sacramento State Photography BFA Program, graduate and undergraduate students at San Francisco State in Professor Lorena Molina's social practice art class, and alumni of Sac State Photo. Through field trips, diverse creative research, and collaborative dialogue, this group of artists has begun the process of connecting themselves to the land surrounding them and investigating the floodplain ecosystems and infrastructure of the Sacramento Valley. The goal of the [Placeholder] project is to question the ambient worldview wherein people are separate from nature, and entitled to engage in an extraction economy. It lifts up stories of reciprocity, stewardship, and relationality in which humans are just one component of a rich and complex fabric of connectivity and relationships. It recognizes a damaged relationship between many people and the land they live on, and searches for pathways toward repair.