{"id":6723,"date":"2014-12-29T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:52","slug":"6723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=6723","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6798 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tar-sands1.jpg\" alt=\"tar sands1\" width=\"675\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tar-sands1.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tar-sands1-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tar-sands1-450x298.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/>\u00a0<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Beautiful Destruction\u00a0project features photographs of the Alberta Tar Sands, captured by\u00a0Louis Helbig, who visited the oil\/tar sands in the winter of\u00a02012, and again, for 7\u00a0weeks in the\u00a0spring and early summer of 2013 to\u00a0illuminate contradiction \u2013 what is beautiful and destructive about the development in northern Alberta \u2013 seems to open space for imagination and discussion. \u00a0The public reaction to these photographs suggests\u00a0that there can be a place\u00a0for reflection, sharing and thinking,\u00a0unencumbered by the deep-seated divisive polarities that usually characterize\u00a0debate about and comment on the tar\/oil sands. (<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #339966;\" title=\"Alberta Tar Sands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beautifuldestruction.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6723 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;Louis Helbig&#8217;s Photographs of the Alberta Tar Sands, Beautiful Destruction&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6724 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tar-sands.jpg\" alt=\"tar sands\" width=\"675\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tar-sands.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tar-sands-142x80.jpg 142w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tar-sands-450x252.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><\/div> <div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-7  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beautiful Destruction project captures the Alberta Tar Sands in Northern Alberta and into Saskatchewan and Illuminates its contradiction \u2013 the beauty in destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[76,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropocene","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18390,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/18390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}