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Santiago Mostyn is a photographer and video-maker whose images focus on the interaction between urban subcultures and the soon-to-fail natural environment. In an America experiencing its last over-saturated burst of unilateral war and fanatical idealism, everything appears consumable—whether it is love, shoes or political affiliation. As a means of counteracting this excess, groups of artists and performers have begun turning their backs to the urban shops, and to news of the oil wars. |
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Santiago Mostyn
Santiago Mostyn is a photographer and video-maker whose images focus on the interaction between urban subcultures and the soon-to-fail natural environment. In an America experiencing its last over-saturated burst of unilateral war and fanatical idealism, everything appears consumable—whether it is love, shoes or political affiliation. As a means of counteracting this excess, groups of artists and performers have begun turning their backs to the urban shops, and to news of the oil wars.
They have turned and, taking what is radical and free in the spirit of our waning urban lives, they have gone back into America to find something else. They have climbed onto trains, built bicycles, taken up the trash and built great rafts; with these things, they have traveled to the center of America—to the red states—to where some resolution can be made between the dichotomous and deflated “us and them.” They have found the “Great River” and have taken it downstream, to where the hurricanes came because of the rising heat—in order to see, but not to take pity. The goal? To make a fresh thing from the ashes of these places from which we have come.
