OVERLAND

Ongoing photo series documenting the changing ecology of the American Midwest.

The American Midwest is the largest contiguous biologically altered landmass in the world. 99% of Nebraska’s and Iowa's prairies, 75% of their forests, and 95% of their wetlands have been destroyed to make way for crops, grazing, urbanization, and highways. Overland considers the ecological entanglements of being in relationship with land and practicing“staying with the trouble,” Donna Haraway’s phrase for “making oddkin.” In her estimation, “We require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles. We become - with each other or not at all."