Rebecca Chesney

66 Million 2017 and 2022
Video (duration 5.20 minutes)
Laser woodcut print 240 cm x 182 cm

66 Million is a video and print installation showing two different landscapes: one in the intensely farmed agricultural land of Central Valley, demanding huge quantities of water to irrigate the land and feed the crops; the second of a hillside forest in Yosemite National Park showing the extent of dead trees caused by years of drought, bark beetle attack and increase in wild fires.
Travelling past mile upon mile of intensely farmed agricultural land the video (filmed in 2016 in California) is in direct contrast to the print that shows a Yosemite hillside with swathes of dead and dying trees.


Installation view of 66 Million at the Peter Scott Gallery in 2017


Above: Stills from 66 Million

Below: 66 Million
Laser woodcut print of dead trees in Yosemite National Park
Etching ink on newsprint paper 240cm x 182cm, 2022


Below: 66 Million (film and print) was included in Connected - Connectedness at Gallery ONKAF in New Delhi, India in 2022.



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