“Gold, Goods, and Glory”
Triptych - 2017
Exhibited in Galería Panza Verde group show, Sept. 2017

After years of working to map deforestation in near-real time with satellite imagery, I was left emotionally impacted by what I had seen.

The three sites mapped in this triptych (two in the Peruvian Amazon, one in Sumatra, Indonesia) are ones that I fought to save via my work with Global Forest Watch. However, only one of the sites ended in a halt of illegal deforestation of primary forests.

These rainforests were removed to make way for consumer goods - cacao and palm oil. So where does the value of this land really lie? How are we hiding - or glorifying - this destruction?