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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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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.

Los Angeles: Camouflage and Contestation

September 20, 2012 Jason Weems

Bird's eye view of Disneyland in Anaheim, California, 1958 | Courtesy of Stuff from the Park Blog — Bird's eye view of Disneyland in Anaheim, California, 1958 | Courtesy of Stuff from the Park Blog

Art historian Jason Weems examines three mid-century constructions understood as staples of the California landscape: Disneyland, Lakewood, and the aerospace industry.

'Even Our Palm Trees Are Cooler'

July 3, 2012 Janet Owen Driggs

San Pedro palm being brought to Fifth Street and Central Avenue for depot, 1889 | Courtesy of USC Libraries Special Collections — San Pedro palm being brought to Fifth Street and Central Avenue for depot, 1889 | Courtesy of USC Libraries Special Collections

Incendiary Traces examines the role that real estate and the railroad played in the advertisement of Southern California as a fertile tropical utopia in the late 1800s.