Land scape Special Edition CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW And although I have begun Environmental Melancholia from components of nature captured by my camera, I have used imagination to frame nature into landscapes. One could say that I have been playing with the boundaries of landscape using past, present, and future, the so-call real or what my camera captured, and the so-called unreal, using imagination and composition to transform aspects of nature creating landscapes that carry comments about our environmental crisis. As you have remarked once, you want viewers to look beyond the beauty and stop and say, “wait, what is happening here?” We have really appreciated the way it stimulates the viewers' parameters and allows an open reading: how important is for you to trigger the spectatorship's imagination in order to elaborate personal meanings? What do you hope your spectatorship will take away from Environmental Melancholia? Donna Bassin: The subject of this project is the impact of the environmental crisis on our psyche. I am simultaneously addressing nature's precariousness and our psychological strategies for managing these heavy losses. I am hoping that viewers will be drawn to look closely at my work -initially seduced by the beauty associated with landscape and the ease of connecting with a familiar photography subject. Then I want them to understand these landscapes, in part, as memorials to wounded and dying environments. Memorials in my mind are spaces where one feels a loss usefully. The photo corners, with their associations with souvenirs of the past, suggest a warning that our unspoiled natural environments might become imaginary and nostalgic without