Granted

Granted orients viewers within the flow of place and time to the surrounding area, within its natural beauty, historical setting, and sacred cultural sites. The seven element installation is aligned to celestial coordinates of its location: North, South, East, West, and to the four cardinal (equinoxes and solstices) sunrise/sunset positions on the horizon at the site. Granted addresses the past, present, and future threats of coal and uranium mining to the area's people and natural environment. As corporate coal mining - which has done enormous damage to local miners' health and to Earth's atmosphere - slows, a dramatic increase in uranium mining is underway. Priceless natural features, water supplies, and sacred sites, already rife with deadly radioactive mine tailings, are being lost. Decades of death from lung disease, cancer, and related ailments are predicted to increase.