Quarry

Quarry. 2023.

From this height the quarry turns into a diagram, all circles, spokes and straight lines etched into powdered earth. Tanks read as pale coins laid on a table, conveyors stretch like black pencil marks, and the trucks become tiny markers pushed around a board. The warm rusts and cool teal pools fight for attention, hinting at water, metal and mineral all working at once. It is an image about extraction, but also about how easily a working site slips into pure abstraction when seen from above, the machinery of industry rearranged into a careful drawing across the ground.

10.26 mm • f/5.0 • 1/400 sec • ISO 100