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Evidence and Artifacts:
Particle Matter 2.5
These photographs were made in the midst of ice, fog and inversion, a natural and manmade regional weather phenomenon in which beauty and toxicity combine. The singular perspective conveys the intimacy of isolated encounters with the consequences of progress and recession. Secreted within a small circle of vision, the blanketing silence obscures the urban realities, the visual and auditory noise, the temporary evidences and enduring artifacts of human expansion. The rhythmic digital imprinting artificially superimposes physical evidence of the tiny particles poisoning the valley air during the winter months. These textures suggest a sense of hyper-reality, an aesthetic parallel to the terrible and beautiful duality of inversion.
Development, manufacturing, transportation pollution, and agriculture all contribute to the growing problem of air quality. Ironically, the land where these photographs were made is currently returning to its previous state of existence. After being plowed, arranged and rearranged by developers planning a new subdivision, the economic recession caused by inflated housing costs has abruptly halted all movement toward completion.
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