Iowa s ever-changing landscape captured through art
The exhibit called Compelling Ground: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of Iowa features more than a dozen different artists from across the state. Author: Jon Diaz (WOI) Updated: 9:45 PM CDT May 13, 2021
AMES, Iowa Over the past thirty years, artist John Preston has watched Iowa s landscape change from his own backyard. Around me, there used to be other people. And those houses and stuff have gone away, and they ve been knocked down, Preston said.
From his point of view, much of the reason why has been the state s evolving agriculture industry. It s just scale of it huge. It s different, he said.