ABSTRACT
Art has long offered geographers empirical objects through which to theorize nature and society-environment relations, through paintings, installations and land-art (Daniels 1993; Gandy 1997), and, more recently, art-science collaborations (Dixon, Hawkins, and Straughan 2013). We add to this area of inquiry by examining two socially engaged artworks, Bird Yarns (2012; Figure 1), a collective knitting project in Scotland, and SLOW Cleanup (2010; Figure 2), a Chicagobased, artist-driven environmental remediation project.
