Long form essay by Michael Montoya
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SALT; Dilution in Two Parts, is a 4 year commitment to unravelling the spun webbing of Neo-liberal, and conservative thought practices that have doomed, in a large reductive sense, the inner Salt Lake population. Seeped in the tribal tradition of translating (or even de-coding) complex critical theory into narrative, it is a science fiction novella with its eyes fixed to the onrushing tragic traffic of a dystopian climate in the near future. It follows two provincial, found-footage style voyages: one of western romances' coping with the madness of loss. The other of our enterprising youth navigating their inherited land and mind. SALT; Dilution in Two Parts is the coalescence of my own voyage of sitting with such tragedy, and climate demons; both reactionary, and foreboding, it seeks to illustrate in a pastiche way how the marriage of praxis to narrative can be a powerful and effective engagement to decode our harrowing future.
Bio
Michael Isidro Coyote Montoya is a Native American writer born in the attritionary wilderness of Northern New Mexico. They have studied space, writing, and sociology in three different institutions with a degree from Westminster College, but have found a mooring in the horizontal rhizomes of inner Salt Lake of which has taught them more than anywhere else about what it means to take up space as an artist and a responsible agent of critical change.
