Fracktured Lives, Bullet Space: New York, NY, Ltd Edition, 2015.

Fracktured Lives is a massive, 25-pound book, bound in sheet metal, which comprehensively takes on the massive subject of fracking with a focus on the history of the resistance to this despicable extraction practice in New York State and beyond. The book features 50 screenprints by a diverse and inter-generational selection of artists, a veritable exhibition in an easily unbolted codex form.

“Alexandra Rojas’s “Protect Your Mother” (with gun in hand), was photographed on Unadilla River in upstate New York where she lives, and also appropriates her South American roots (Columbia), commenting on the inspirational sources of “The Rights of Nature”.”
- Fracktured Lives

“Individuals participating in Fracktured Lives range from a grouping of writers and poets whose social and aesthetic histories align with New York’s The Lower East Side, including Carlo McCormick, Frank Morales, Carl Watson, Sarah Ferguson, and Michael Carter. Like the Beat Generation and the New York School writers before them, these (and many others) have fostered and maintained a thread of radical reimagining of collective society— and the visionary words it may bring forth. Visual artists include Sue Coe, David Sandlin, Walter Sipser, John Fekner, Alexandra Rojas, Anton van Dalen, Tony Pinotti and Andrew Castrucci himself. Most of these, too, have taken up subjects that have pre-occupied earlier generations of socially engaged artists...”
- Fracktured Lives