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The purpose of the book is to provoke, through visual art, new ways of thinking about how we see our role within the natural environment and our connection(s) to the rest of the planet - and how this affects our future. While we cannot ignore the problems of the planet today, the book will not simply be a recitation of negative prognoses. Rather it will look at ways in which artists and scientists are re-visioning our relationship with the earth and space. The artists and artworks address a broad range of issues that we understand as key challenges to the future of the earth - including climate change, migration, water, energy production, and natural resources. Many of the works present atypical uses of visual art and photography to address these changes with new media, moving image, performance, and text. Lead essays will be provided by the pioneering curator Wendy Watriss, Co-Curator of the Changing Circumstances Exhibition and Co-Founder of FotoFest International, and by FotoFest Executive Director and Co-Curator of the Changing Circumstances Exhibition, Steven Evans. The authors will look at the shifting relationships between contemporary art photography, issues of global change, and activism. Co-Founder of FotoFest International and Changing Circumstances Co-Curator Frederick Baldwin, with Watriss and Evans, will provide a philosophical overview of the project in the introduction. 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By quirk of fate, this lovely region has become a repository for the yearnings of modern society to reinvent its past--a magnet for writers, artists, and people in search of a frontier heritage. The rugged landscape, rock farmhouses, hand-built stone fences, and carefully constructed towns have become part of an American dream. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn eighty-eight contemporary photographs, Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin contrast today's Hill Country with historical prints of the life known by the early settlers. In 1848 it was land no one wanted--arid, rocky territory crisscrossed by Comanches and far from any market. Sold by speculators to unsuspecting German noblemen, the land became the setting for a distinctive way of life where language, physical struggle, political distinctiveness, and character created a tradition that is now attracting new kinds of settlers. 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