Donna Bassin Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW from thePrecious Scars series from thePrecious Scars series and what are some of the ideas that you hope working on a very personal project: an to explore in the future? engagement with my deceased parents around their global travels. I inherited a collection of Donna Bassin: I will continue working on the my father’s Kodachrome slides and am now Environmental Melancholia series and expand “collaborating” with his photographic work. the project to create a limited-edition artist book. I don’t yet know where it will go but that is one More visual ideas will emerge as I continue to of the pleasures of making art. develop this series and immerse myself in the practices and challenges of environmental activism. I have more environments I want to photograph, including landscapes with ancient ruins, to draw an equivalence between the fall of civilizations and the collapse of nature. I am currently collecting miniature plastic replicas of nature’s components, trees, An interview by Josh Ryder, curator mountains, flora and fauna, and animals, and I and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator envision constructing mini-landscapes to photograph made entirely of plastic. I am also [email protected]