Terra Firma

Humans are becoming increasingly divorced from the physical, natural world allowing industrial damages to be carried out on an increasingly large scale.

Our once-traditional notion of a green and pleasant land does little to slow the abuse performed on our land for monetary gain. An increasingly scarce resource and valuable commodity, land use is perpetually contested within the domestic political sphere, with tensions between economic and ecological concerns, productivity versus environmentalism.

The locations in this project range from operational extractive sites to derelict and abandoned ones, highlighting an established pattern of abuse and disregard of land for profit that spans millennia. Pushed to the fringes of view, these mining sites are the shameful evidence of human consumption.