In observing the ongoing simplification of the landscape, we were looking to capture the present day consequences of the reductionist view of the soil archive, in the context of the environmental transformations set in motion with the expansion of the Alqueva irrigation project. In great part inspired by the method of captioning employed by Cabral in his visual analysis of soil erosion, we were also interested in exploring how the recording of this loss was able to perform as an instrument of resistance.
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