Fragmented Wilderness of the Calumet Region is the companion book to Mike Weis' sixth solo album Ring the Bell for the 10,000 Forgotten Things. During his residency with the Calumet Artist program in 2019, Weis made hundreds of photographs of one species of native grass, Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium). He then superimposed the shapes of maps of protected nature preserves in the Calumet Region on the Little Bluestem images and then cut and copied these shapes onto a diptych panel to emphasize the cut up and fragmented practice of land use in the Calumet Region and how little of land portion is preserved in its natural state. Fragmented Wilderness of the Calumet Region collects these panels in a catalog-style photo book designed by Common Name.
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