Story Info
Story Info
Kim Salinas Silva
North Providence, Rhode Island
2023
Type of Wounded Place
Story & Experience
When we moved here seven years ago, this was a thriving spot with families of geese and ducks, peepers frogs, foxes and coyotes. Children skated on its sturdy ice. Now, drought has taken over, it is now a glorified mud pit.
When we moved here seven years ago, this was a thriving spot with families of geese and ducks, peepers frogs, foxes and coyotes. Children skated on its sturdy ice. Now, drought has taken over, it is now a glorified mud pit.
Why this Place?
North Providence, Rhode Island
Because I see it every day. It lies behind my house.
Act of Beauty
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I created an abstract image that encompassed all the life forms struggling within the area.
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