Solastalgia: Naiads of the New World

Naiads protected fresh water sources in classical mythology. My ink drawings of river nymphs on reproduction American colonial maps mark the passage from millennia of “uncharted territory” to the disappearance of countless indigenous cultures, and extensive environmental changes, that began during the European exploration and settlement of the New World. Their bodies passively incorporate waterways renamed in the various languages of the colonizing peoples.