At today's @PrincetonPEI #PEI_Faculty_Seminar, @princetonarts prof. Jeff Whetstone is presenting "The New Wilderness," including some of his works from his documentary of life along the Mississippi.pic.twitter.com/fyUeIdvsSn
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At today's @PrincetonPEI #PEI_Faculty_Seminar, @princetonarts prof. Jeff Whetstone is presenting "The New Wilderness," including some of his works from his documentary of life along the Mississippi.pic.twitter.com/fyUeIdvsSn
Results of Whetstone's involvement with the @PrincetonPEI Urban Grand Challenges program include "Flow: Living with the Mississippi," "The Batture Ritual" and a #PrincetonU class entitled "The Port of New Orleans."
For his undergrad career, Whetstone studied zoology. "When I see a landscape ... I see ecological systems. When I see a human ... I see instincts."
In comparing early photographers and how they saw and displayed the Western Hemisphere, Whetstone notes, "Early on, photography is an opinion ... and landscape is not something to record, but something to project upon." 
"What is wild now, and what is wild in the future?"
These are the questions Whetstone set out to answer in his works. #PEI_Faculty_Seminar
On areas like Kentucky, where Whetstone once lived, "The landscape forms the people ... The land is instrumental in our perceptions."
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When Whetstone looks to shoot, he looks for "land that is interstitial, unowned, and a byproduct of a commodity," which led him to his work along the Mississippi. #PEI_Faculty_Seminar
Faced with the challenges of capturing the visuals of #climatechange as they're happening in real-time, particularly in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, "I tried to tell the story of how people are adapting to this." #PEI_Faculty_Seminar
"I feel like I was witnessing something that was very, very ancient while also very, very contemporary." - Whetstone, on his film "The Batture Ritual," which highlights the goings-on of the economy around a particular tree in New Orleans. #PEI_Faculty_Seminar
Whetstone considers himself a "concerned artist not looking for solutions, but metaphors" that can help people improve our land. #PEI_Faculty_Seminar
Be sure to mark your calendar for the next #PEI_Faculty_Seminar on 11/6: "Modeling Energy and Environmental Behavior," with #PrinctonU's Elke Weber. http://ow.ly/Ps3r30m4keG
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