YoloSol Collective

Day: July 18, 2025

Lobotomizing the Land

A series of verdant hills, valleys, and creeks are layered upon one another. In the background is the blue sky and a rising sun. The landscape is peppered with oaks, and wildflowers are sprouting from the hills in the foreground. Upon closer look, one notices that the hills have faces, and the creeks are pools of tears emerging from their vacant eyes. The hill-face in the foreground is looking up and screaming, and as the river gushes out of their open mouth, an orbitoclast pierces their eye.

Using Ooti Maxine’s evocative painting as a spring board, this blog post (written by azade minasian and other collective members) examines the concept of disabled ecologies against the gendered medical history of lobotomies, to understand how extraction and mega-development are being used to lobotomize the land in the Yolo bioregion.

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