Toxic Topiaries

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13”x19”
2008
Photography

To create this series, I loaded the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory geodata into Google Earth and got in the car. Laptop on the passenger seat, I drove to nearby industrial facilities that were on the list. Each toxic site I visited used elaborate landscaping to project a sculpted version of nature to the world. Inspired by the traditions of Romantic landscape painting and Paparazzi photography, I captured these facades with the help of a strobe light and the dreary Ohio winter sky.