Undermining is derived from Lippard’s lived experience in a New Mexico village and inspired by gravel pits in the landscape; she weaves a number of fascinating themes—among them fracking, mining, land art, adobe buildings, ruins, Indian land rights, the Old West, tourism, photography, and water—into a tapestry that illuminates the relationship between culture and the land. From threatened Native American sacred sites to the history of uranium mining, she offers a skeptical examination of the "subterranean economy." She reads in Sante Fe’s famous independent bookstore Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse.