Annie Harrington
My image remix was inspired by the text on the front of the page. It says, "embark on the ultimate unplugged adventure to Labrador's remote Torngat Mountains National Park, which lives up to its lnuktitut name as a 'place of spirits,'" (Story and Photographs by Anne Farrar). This quote is ironic to me because as the barren landscape leads you to believe there is minimal human life here in this valley in Canada and yet multiple business have found a way to make money by bringing tours of hikers through the park. By doing these tours for groups of visitors they are required to make camps and take resources from the park which leaves a human footprint on the land however minuscule. I symbolized this intrusion by making the "s" in "Exposure" ad dollar sign because the businesses are making profit off mother nature's beauty. Additionally, many parks similar to this are actually very polluted by acid rain, that's the yellow crumpled tissue paper. The word "exposure", can be seen as the exposure from humans that slowly ruins national parks and turns them into tourist traps. The clouds of words hanging above the valley symbolize the human voices which have the power to destroy these beautiful locations with out even knowing it.
National Geographic Traveler, Anne Farrar, August/September 2018, page 94
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