"I couldn't bear to sit in my smoky living room and doomscroll any longer," he told me. The AQI was over 500. Wearing a respirator and struggling to breathe, he stopped in Tualatin and took a photo. Lush green leaves flicker against a burnt orange sky in Tualatin, 2020, part of his series, which opens at KAMP Gallery Thursday, November 14 (6-9pm; 2316 NE Oregon St). Matsuda saw an apocalypse, but everyone he shared the photo with said it was beautiful. The response, he thought, 'indicated a lack of awareness or care about our burning world.' But eventually he saw an opportunity in this confusing beauty: The contradiction could set the tone for a photo series made in the areas surrounding Portland to interrogate the alluring, extraordinary scenes of climate change in plain view."},{
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