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Goshute people
Impact of capitalism and colonisation on Western USA
orange clay pigeons
Salt Lake City
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- ISBN 9781915423023
- Dimensions: 165 x 218mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2023
- Publisher: GOST Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on Utah’s West Desert, Jaclyn Wright’s work aims to illustrate the struggle between the
natural world and its codification by bureaucrats, the visible and invisible and the ironies of fantasies of
freedom and nativism on stolen land.
Located on the western side of the Great Salt Lake, much of the West Desert, the ancestral home of the
Goshute people, is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The area is classified by the US Federal
Government as ‘public lands’ yet significant acreage is privately leased for mining and cattle ranching and
nearly one-third of the area is used as biological and chemical weapons testing grounds. The lake is rapidly
drying up due to overuse and human-caused ecological change—threatening millions of migratory birds
and the population of Salt Lake City. The remaining areas are open to various uses, including improvised
gun ranges.
The motif of the colour blaze orange is dispersed throughout the book as a nod to the most conspicuous
type of debris found in the West Desert ranges—blaze orange clay pigeons.
These aerial targets are painted this colour to ensure they stand out against the sky on a clear day and
against a natural landscape. A colour created to oppose nature, not to be confused with it.
Jaclyn Wright is an American multi-disciplinary artist. Her work incorporates archival images, in-camera
collages using a large format view camera, and photographic installations. High Visibility (Blaze Orange) by
Jaclyn Wright was the winner of the inaugural Unseen – GOST Books Publishing Award.
