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In 1994, artists Bob Braine, Mark Dion, and Alexis Rockman traveled to
Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, in the greater Amazon basin. They embarked
from there on a six-week jungle expedition by boat.
In what they expected to be the most remote part of the jungle, however, the three instead found camps full of desperate goldminers and rivers turned milky brown from gold dredging. Upon returning to Georgetown they discovered that, during their brief absence, construction had begun on the impoverished country's first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise. The year after their trip a gold mine leaked more than 800 million gallons of cyanide-tainted water into the river they'd traveled. On the following pages you can read the diaries they kept on their trip and look at their art. |
