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Among the Ecuadorean artists in the show Maria Teresa Ponce’s
lush color photographs of the oil pipeline running from the Amazon
region in Ecuador to the Pacific coast stand out. You can’t see the
pipeline in every photograph; sometimes it is partly or completely
buried. But a bucolic image of children playing near a stream where
a woman washes clothing is an eerie reminder of how global trade
can affect remote regions. (Even more unsettling, as Rodolfo
Kronfle Chambers points out in a catalog essay, is that a
promotional tourist campaign for Ecuador uses “Life at Its Purest” as
a slogan.)
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