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Silver Lake Operations # 1, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia
Hovering above the area of interest, a sense of vertigo
Silver Lake Operations # 2, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia
Nothing specific; a circular crater, a spill of something like blood; an unlimited blank horizon
Silver Lake Operations # 3, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia
Seen from high above and far away the alluvial stain of the maze seems to trace the flow of a prior history for which the words have not been retained
Silver Lake Operations # 8, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007
Yet as one moves closer certain small adjustments of perspective must be made
Silver Lake Operations # 15, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia
To accommodate the vision of the mined surface stitched and scored like a surgical wound
Tailings # 1, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Photos from Australia by Edward Burtynsky, 2007 (via Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
