Toxics Release Inventory Sites of the Mid-Atlantic

by admin

3’x5’
2009
Soil collected from underneath Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Bridge, suspended in acrylic gel, acetate sheet, US EPA Toxics Release Inventory data

This work maps polluting US industrial facilities of the mid-Atlantic region, using soil collected from underneath Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Bridge. Created during a weeklong charette geared towards developing urban land art, it situates the surrounding gallery space, the Temple Gallery (itself under the bridge as well), within the broader context of pollution and industry on the East Coast.

The big blotch in the top right corner is the Jersey Meadowlands, the middle blotch stretching down in a line from that spot is Philadelphia and the Delaware river, and the last large blotch in that line is Baltimore.