Yesterday I took a skateboard and pushed myself around the neighborhood — for fun and sanity’s sake. It was a bright sunny day, and any other year I’d feel the expansive sense of freedom that comes with spring sunshine, green grass, and blooming flowers. This year it feels surreal and absurd instead, like the bright suburbia of Edward Scissorhands — a sense of looming gloom just out of sight, intentionally ignored. But holy hell turns are turns, and even wheeled turns on concrete are a welcome distraction.

This month started with a call to support Protect Our Winters and to confront the disappearing winters, and by the end of the month all the resorts have closed, though not because there isn’t snow… While there are some much larger immediate issues to confront than the end of the ski season, I’m finishing this month off with the same call—while our own personal actions are important to be aware of, the collective action we need the most is in pressuring industries to move past the economics of writing off pollution and toxic emissions as ‘externalities’ for the world to absorb, and hold them accountable for their participation in the world we all share. As before; stay safe, wash your hands, and love each other.

All proceeds from this print (and all others in March) sales will be donated to Protect Our Winters.

This is the twelfth of 52 archival photographic prints in a weekly retrospective print project.

• Printed on Fuji Deep Matte archival paper using a traditional photographic process involving chemistry and paper with silver halide. Not inkjet prints! Produced by industry leader ProDPI.

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