“Glum Globes” explores disaster tourism. The piece questions what turns a site of environmental disaster into a spectacle. The work uses snow globes and samples from Colorado waterways that do not meet Clean Water Act requirements. 

Mountain streams are symbols of clean water. However, for decades in Colorado, mining has led to a high concentration of destructive pollutants within the state’s waterways. Even so, Colorado’s mountain streams remain emblems of pristine, untouched wilderness and are visited by tourists as such.