Thank you Nicola Naismith for the Edward Burtynsky link. I clicked on to see the video you spoke of and found a whole world of, as Burtynsky says, ‘places that are outside of our normal experience, yet we partake of their output on a daily basis.’ This dichotomy is what draws me to make work and why I am drawn to a quarry residency. As Susan Francis has also just commented about wallpapering over rough walls – there is a direct relation between what lies beneath the surface and the veneer we see.
Please check out the Burtynsky website, to see the scale he evokes in his work.
