WORDS FROM Alejandro T. Acierto

Much of my recent work intervenes on the histories and conventions of landscape and environmentally-minded creative practices by utilizing expanded documentary forms (photography, photogrammetry, 3D modeling, assemblage, and archival research) to critically engage its content. Working conceptually between publications and built environments as installations, my work contends with the notion of “documentation” and the existent administrative/bureaucratic devises often used as evidence to justify the development of vacant, “unoccupied” land that privilege human occupation. Questioning how those environs insist upon other perspectives of “value” that reorient the land first, this recent project's multi-perspectival depiction allows for different kinds of arguments that engage new forms of right relation, ones that center Indigenous stewardship and advocate for Land Back.