Ephemeral Art In Burns Bog

An Event and Public Awareness Campaign in support of
UNESCO (U.N.) World Heritage Site Status for Burns Bog.

Performance Art. Dance. Object Ephemeral Art. Documentary Photography.
16.08.2009

Support :
• Earth Artists

Locations:
• Burns Bog, Delta, BC, Canada.

"These works come from the land, speak of the land, and return to the land. Their effect ripples outward through media."
Master Artist and Public Relations Strategist, A. Traviss Corry

This collaborative work of many artists provided public relations and photographic material to multiple organizations, and political parties, in support of the campaign UNESCO World Heritage Site Status For Burns Bog.

These images were seen extensively in print and spread virally through electronic media by people concerned with the bog's protection, creating a surge in public awareness and municipal and federal political pressure. This effort culminated with mass media coverage, the support of Members Of Parliament, and official U.N. nomination, and an announcement in the Canadian House Of Commons.

Burns Bog is the largest remaining domed peat bog in the Western Hemisphere. The bog's unique acidic, alien-seeming landscape is populated by rare flora and fauna, arctic plants, and carpeted by great expanses of sphagnum mosses, and other captivatingly rare plants and animals.

Currently Burns Bog land is mainly in the stewardship of the British Columbia Provincial Government. A highway development threatens the bog's overall sensitive hydrology.

You can help this effort towards UNESCO protection by spreading this artwork...