David Taylor set out to photograph each of the 276 obelisks installed by the International Boundary Commission following the Mexican/American War.
Read MoreA Brief History of Border Walls
Incendiary Traces lists historical and contemporary border walls to provide some global and historical context for understanding Southern California's contested US/Mexico border.
Read MoreDrawing a Line: Encounters with the U.S.-Mexico Border
Susanna Newbury examines the history of the U.S./Mexico border and its geopolitical importance to the United States.
Read MoreDraw-in at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Headquarters
Incendiary Traces gathered at Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Headquarters to contemplate looking, drawing, recording, and representing landscape at the home of military "sight."
Read MoreDrawing with Satellites: Tracing Landscapes With a Mission
Incendiary Traces considers crisis mapping as another form of visualization that can help us, as ordinary citizens, understand seemingly remote wars.
Read MoreLos Angeles: Camouflage and Contestation
Art historian Jason Weems examines three mid-century constructions understood as staples of the California landscape: Disneyland, Lakewood, and the aerospace industry.
Read MoreSan Clemente Island Draw-in
Incendiary Traces ventures out on the sport fishing boat Fury for an unannounced draw-in focused on San Clemente Island Naval Weapons Testing Range.
Read MoreThe Naval Gaze: (Sub)tropical Fantasies and Imperial Pacific Landscapes
Hillary Mushkin examines early European representations of the Southern California coast.
Read MoreTracing the San Clemente Island Weapons Testing Range
San Clemente Island is the subject of a draw-in on the deck of a sport fishing boat named "The Fury".
Read More'Even Our Palm Trees Are Cooler'
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.
Read MoreHow a 19th Century Painting Transformed California's Desert World
In the late 19th century, Southern California's human and natural geography transformed as millions of new residents settled its semi-arid desert world, but artistic renditions of this region seldom get the attention of its northerly neighbors. But why is this the case?
Read MoreDrawing, the Rules of Perspective, and National Security
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.
Read MoreWhat is Incendiary Traces?
Conceived by artist Hillary Mushkin, Incendiary Traces is a conceptually driven, community-generated art project that explores the political act of representing the Southern California landscape by creating a series of drawing events in different militarized locations across the region.
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