Opportunistic Vistas: 3 Videos About Industry
The spectacle and unexpected formal elegance of an effluent pipe in rural northern California. This eleven mile-long pipe extends - vacuum cleaner-like - from a dredging barge, across the marshes, and over the sand dunes to its final destination.
2007, color video, 9 minutes.
Exportadora de Sal
View of the terrain of an enormous evaporative-based salt mine in Mexico. Seawater is circulated and gradually evaporated within an elaborate maze of vast ponds, while a gracefully orchestrated army of pumps, trucks, bulldozers, and coveyor belts process the final product. The vibrantly tinted saline solutions, hillocks of flying foam, and pumps and machinery all labor to create a strangely magical landscape.
2007, color video, 7.5 minutes
Cummings Road Landfill
A reflective typological inventory of the mechanical infrastructure and mysterious subterranean activities of an entirely manufactured waste landscape, where squirting pumps and bubbling methane fields curiously resemble geothermal features.
2007, color video, 6.5 minutes.