McLaughlin Open Pit Mine

http://nrs.ucdavis.edu/McL/index.html
McLaughlin Preserve:

Five ideas for art projects that were either informed and/or inspired during our visit to the McLaughlin Reserve all revolve around areas that I have determined to be interesting and in need of a prolonged intervention. I propose to use photography as my tool of intervention. My five projects are not particularly projects, but instead are areas I could see spending extended periods of time photographing and collecting ideas from. First, the mine, what a site of transformation, overwhelmingly this had to be the first on my list, what more to say; it needs to be surveyed, analyzed and extensively researched. Second and Third, and to continue on with the entropic sensations of containment and release, the tailings pond in addition to the tailing piles, both of which are fascinating reserves of such a magnitude they make you curious to their creation and inspire such awe about how man has gone to such lengths to extract minerals and create such disturbing beauty- how distinctly human or manifest destiny. Fourth, the core shed was quite a fabulous collection of earth; very odd- such a unique preservation of extraction. Fifth and my final is a collection of the plant communities of McLaughlin, achieved through both biking and hiking the lengths of the property I would create an image that renders the particulars of each community.