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After engaging with all of the following:

• Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield — A Confrontation
• Maya Lin’s What is Missing? project
• The documentary Waste Land (dir. Lucy Walker)

Write a two-part response (500–600 words total):

Part 1: Comparative Analysis (350–400 words)

Respond to the following questions using all three works:

• How does each artist confront ecological degradation or loss in their work?
• What creative strategies—materials, scale, symbolism, storytelling—do they use?
• How does each work connect art to action—in terms of policy, emotion, or awareness?
• Which work impacted you the most, and why?

Use at least one direct reference or detail from each of the three works to support your analysis.

Part 2: Creative Proposal (150–200 words)

Inspired by the works you've studied, imagine your own small-scale eco-activist artwork or public intervention. Your project may be real, speculative, or conceptual. Include:

• Title of your project
• What it would look like or involve
• What environmental issue it engages
• What kind of response you hope to provoke

Your intervention doesn’t have to offer a solution—it should provoke reflection or start a conversation.

Submission Guidelines:

• Write in paragraph form. This is a journal, not a list.
• You may write in a personal or reflective tone, but support your insights with specific examples from the artworks and readings.