From the Dust Bowl to Global Warming

Mid-west farmers faced what felt like the end of the world in the 1930’s during the Dust Bowl, a ten-year drought that decimated crops and spawned infestations of locusts that darkened the sky and rabbits that ate all remaining vegetation. Sandblasting winds blew in clouds of dust that buried houses and turned the noon-hour sky into night. Lozano’s large digital prints are based on actual historic photographs of the event to remind us of the Dust Bowl, to remind us that humans can negatively affect the entire globe. We now observe global warming resulting in forest fires, melting ice caps, and rising sea levels that are set to drown out much of the southeastern US. Lozano’s images are shocking, yet what is to come will have global impact. The point of his show is that both events are/were avoidable if people would care for the health of our planet and eliminate destruction driven by human greed.