'Damn this regime 2 hell': Firestorm as #Trump #DHS bulldozes millennium-aged #CulturalSite

#WashingtonPost reported the Trump admin's expansion of #BorderWall in southern #Arizona damagd #NativeAmerican #ArchaeologicalSite featuring nearly 200ft-long "intaglio," or etched image o fish on the land. Report indicates crews drove heavy machinery over the #intaglio, & satellite imagery showed a "disturbance" in the area as crews worked 2 build more than 3 miles of new wall

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dhs-2676838282/

#Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old #ArcheologicalSite to Make Room for a Second Border Wall

#DHS was in talks with the #WildlifeRefuge that hosts the ancient site to make sure it was protected, a local archeologist said.

Adam Federman
April 30 2026, 7:01 p.m.

"A rare archaeological site in the #SonoranDesert was bulldozed by a Department of Homeland Security contractor involved in building the latest sections of Donald Trump’s #BorderWall, according to multiple sources briefed on the incident.

"The area, in a remote corner of Arizona’s #CabezaPrieta #NationalWildlifeRefuge, is a nearly 280-by-50-foot etching in the desert sand known as an #intaglio.

"Last Friday, without any notice, a contractor working for DHS cut a roughly 60-foot swath across the middle of the intaglio, doing irreparable damage to the 1,000-year-old artifact.

"Cabeza Prieta, one of the largest wilderness areas outside of Alaska, also encompasses lands sacred to the #TohonoOodham Nation, which borders the refuge to the east. The O’odham have fought to prevent border wall construction across their reservation and during Trump’s first term largely prevailed; they also managed to protect the intaglio and a nearby burial site that they consider to be part of their ancestral lands.

" 'I liken it to destroying the Nazca lines — something that culturally we should have been relishing and promoting. Not destroying,' Rick Martynec, an archaeologist, said in a phone interview, referring to the hundreds of figures drawn into the deserts of southern Peru.

"The destruction was confirmed by a federal employee with direct knowledge of the incident, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal."

Source:
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/arizona-archeological-site-bulldozed-border-wall/

#USPol #TrumpSucks #CulturalErasure #ProtectTheSacred #TohonoOodhamNation #ArchaeologicalSite #DestroyingHistory #Fascism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanCulturalHeritage

Some test a3 size drypoint etching prints of dead sunflowers. Not too bad considering I used the back of a spoon as a printing press😆. Also only on sketchpaper but i can use as underpainting so nothing wasted🙂 . 2nd photo is the plastic plate etching I did.

#drypoint #drypointetching #artstudent #art #printmaking #contemporaryart #myart #mastoart #intaglio #sunflowers

L’artista demoniaco dell’avorio e il palinsesto sferico dell’uovo che ogni cosa contiene
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=44338

#arte #artigianato #storia #cina #manifattura #scultura #intaglio #avorio #materiali #storia #filosofia #asia #invenzioni #manufatti #artefatti #studio #analisi #collezioni #antiquariato #dinastie #commerci #esportazione #tradizioni #società #fengshui