Tailings
I find different tailing reservoirs with the google maps. I draw them and collect public online evidences about the influence of these areas on the lives and activities of the people who live nearby. Some of these tailing reservoirs became a place for extreme tourism. The other ones are used as a source of income: inhabitants obtain ashes from the tailing and sell it as a fertilizer for the plants. In other case people get together and demand the government to improve the ecological situation and to liquidate the dangerous areas.
I put this information, taken from the Internet, side by side with my paintings. Besides that I make a film. It is based on the photos of the tailings made from the space in different years. I animate these photos and show how the tailing have changed during last decade.
My pictures are painted on the wooden planks shaped like the certain tailing reservoirs.
1. 55°23'15.78''n, 85°58'10.98’'e
ТЭЦ - heating plant
зола - ashes
Кемеровский золоотвал Эксплуатирующая организация: ОАО «Кузнецкая ТЭЦ» Золошлаки от сжигания углей. ash dump
Savind the Elk
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2. 56°27'00.32'N,' 61°56'32.02’'E
Шламовые поля СТЗ Синарский трубный завод Каменск-Уральский Отстойники трубного завода Черные озера." Мазутные отстойники. Fuel oil settler
3. 56°18'34.99''N, 61°55'14.85’'E
Шламоотвал №2 уральского алюминиевого завода. Хвостохранилище красного шлама - отходов глиноземного производства. Техногенное образование. Alum earth
4. 43°22′03.78″N 132°18′21.22″E http://wikimapia.org/#lang=ru&lat=43.361943&lon=132.306461&z=15&m=b&show=/27981337/ru/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80&search=43%C2%B022%E2%80%B203.78%E2%80%B3N%20132%C2%B018%E2%80%B221.22%E2%80%B3E Золоотвалы #1 (озеро Та-Пауза до 1972 года) и #2 Артемовской ТЭЦ клубы зольной пыли окутывают окрестности: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN5vbdN7PGs штрафы: http://www.artemkprf.ru/index.php/5231-zolootval-artemovskoj-tets-otravlyayushchij-zhizn-lyudej-za-zagryaznenie-atmosfernogo-vozdukha-pylyu-vinovnye-litsa-zaplatyat-denezhnye-shtrafy
heating plant ash dump
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