rocketman
[[ david MAISEL ]]
The Black Maps project has unfolded in chapters, focusing on such subjects as strip-mines, clear-cuts, cyanide leaching fields, tailings ponds, firestorms, the drainage remnants of Owens Lake, and other manipulations of the natural world.
So here it is again - making atrocity so aesthetically beautiful you can hardly breathe. What is the purpose of aestheticization like this? To fall in love with the torments of the world? And why is it that when a camera attempts to elucidate hardship, war, suffering, decay, it turns out being so beautiful?
...and of course, why do I personally fall victim to it. But that's a question less posed to you than to myself - a rhetorical one at that.