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An art, research and media project investigating the role of landscape imagery in international conflict through drawing events at militarized sites and publications.

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Reconnaissance: Inside the Panopticon

March 10, 2016 Hillary Mushkin

Fig. 3: Panoramic view of the C4i4 from the parking lot rooftop | photo by Paulina V. Pulido — Fig. 3: Panoramic view of the C4i4 from the parking lot rooftop | photo by Paulina V. Pulido

Incendiary Traces reports on visiting the controversial and architecturally formidable C4i4, Mexico City's police surveillance hub.

Sketching Simulated Battlefields in Silicon Beach

August 5, 2014 Hillary Mushkin

View from a ridge in DICE-T with platoon leader’s location | Drawing by Jena Lee

Incendiary Traces pays a virtual visit to an Afghani village to make the seemingly remote conflict a bit more comprehensible to those in the U.S.

Artists, Surveillance and Patrol at the Border

July 8, 2014 Hillary Mushkin

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mso-tstyle-colband-size… — A view of the Pacific from Bunker Hill at the US-Mexico Border | Watercolor by Hillary Mushkin

Incendiary Traces visits the U.S.-Mexico Border to view the binational boundary from the perspective of U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Drawing the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center

March 12, 2013 Hillary Mushkin & Jena Lee

Incendiary Traces led a recent draw-in at the 29 Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center where participants used drawing as a tool for connecting the SoCal landscape to foreign battle zones.

Report: Tracing the US/Mexico Border Wall

January 22, 2013 Hillary Mushkin

Artists, art historians, and students gathered to draw the most southwestern edge of the U.S./Mexico border as part of a continued investigation by Incendiary Traces.

Draw-in at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Headquarters

October 30, 2012 Hillary Mushkin

Radome, Housing protecting radar antennae | Drawing : Hillary Mushkin — Radome, Housing protecting radar antennae | Drawing : Hillary Mushkin

Incendiary Traces gathered at Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Headquarters to contemplate looking, drawing, recording, and representing landscape at the home of military "sight."

San Clemente Island Draw-in

September 6, 2012 Hillary Mushkin

Incendiary Traces ventures out on the sport fishing boat Fury for an unannounced draw-in focused on San Clemente Island Naval Weapons Testing Range.

Drawing, the Rules of Perspective, and National Security

May 21, 2012 Hillary Mushkin

Artists Robby Herbst and Susan Siltonn | Photo : Hillary Mushkin

Hillary Mushkin and a small group of artists and writers sat outside of the Los Angeles Air Force Base sketching and reading poetry. When their quiet session caused alarm, their conversation turned to the legality of looking.