16/05/2026
“It’s Just Like Gardening”
Happy to take some photos “It’s Just Like Gardening”
Happy to take some photos for an Earth Day Cleanup! It was my first time attending one. I’ve gotten to know the Save The Alewife campaign over the last few months. Starting in 2016, when I started to explore the outdoors, I’ve become more and more hopeless as each earth day passes. The wanton destruction of public lands. The disregard for all life for a profit. The exponential increase of data centers all over the lands. It was a breath of fresh air to see an earth day focus on the next steps for a community that shares a natural space.
For those near the alewife in the eastern mass area, please follow their campaign. I am excited to continue working with them as they progress in their efforts to clean the alewife!
https://savethealewifebrook.org/2026/05/10/alewife-earth-day-2026/
What does earth day mean when people take pictures of things that will no longer exist? Every year I see beautiful landscapes, sunrises, sunsets, and night skies. What does it mean when a data center shows up and takes the land away? What about star link satellites that take away the night sky? Is it beautiful to see rockets launch into space that are then used to send bombs to children? Not at all.
Someone said to me that cleaning up the land is a bit like “gardening”. Everyone that helped cleanup the Alewife brought an awesome level of empathy and humanity to their surroundings. I really hope this contagion spreads all the way to western mass and to rest of the lands. We really need it every earth day. Which is everyday.
Film scanned and developed by
Kodacolor 200
The last two images are digital. I wanted to show a biome in a bottle. Which was really cool.
