(Source: Sonoma State University) When Polaroid decided to stop making its trademark instant-developing film in 2008, the company destroyed nearly all of its factories. Sonoma State University environmental history professor Laura A. Watt has latched on to the iconic Polaroid style to express another side of her art. Her work is featured in a solo exhibition, "The Evolving Landscape of Point Reyes," at Prince Gallery in Petaluma Oct. 7-Nov. 8. "It's about how the process of preservation is changing the landscape itself," says Watt, chair of SSU's Environmental Studies and Planning department, whose book about the land management history of Point Reyes is due out next...
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