Selected material by Basia. Please see the Bibliography page for additional articles and other content.

ICE RECEDING/BOOKS RESEEDING: AN EPHEMERAL SERIES OF HAND-CARVED ICE BOOKS RESEEDING RIPARIAN ZONES

2020. Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss. Samuel Pelts, Ed. CODEX Foundation.

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WE ARE THIS RIVER

January 9, 2015. TEDxVail.

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ECOLOGICAL ARTIST BASIA IRLAND AND HER “ICE BOOKS” ENGAGE COMMUNITIES AND RESTORE RIVERS

January 9, 2014. National Geographic (Water Currents blog). Introduction by Sandra Postel.

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AN ICE BOOK FLOATS DOWN THE KARUN RIVER

2013. Love and Pomegranates: Artists and Wayfarers on Iran. Mehan Nuttall Sayers, Ed. Norton Press.

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WILD WATER ART

Spring 2010. New Mexico WILD!

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ECO ART

Autumn 2007. Elephant.

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WALKERTON LIFE VEST

Summer 2003, Issue 87. The New Quarterly.

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