ana atalaya magdalena
ARTWORKS WRITING ABOUT
A video poem about the 1945 testing of the first atomic bomb in southern New Mexico, New Mexico created using archival sources including footage of the 1945 "Trinity" test, Google Maps Screenshots of New Mexico, Missouri, and The Pacific Ocean, a postcard from the Sanctuario De Chimayo, and photographs of "village life" in Northern New Mexico, alongside video filmed outside White Sand National Park, video filmed in Saint Louis, Missouri, where Mallinckrodt Chemical Works produced the enriched uranium used in the Manhattan Project. I combine these elements to understand my personal associative relationship with generational family traumas related to histories of nuclear colonialism.