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Gideon Mendel

here is a description in J. G. Ballard’s novel of iguanas perched in the windows of office blocks after a flood inundates London. Bizarre as this image might have seemed in 1962, when the novel was published, such menacing symbols of our disastrous stewardship of the planet are no longer the stuff of (2007–ongoing), his project about the global effects of flooding.

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