“…Mishka Henner, who searches Google Earth to find and compose images like this one, of the C
“…Mishka Henner, who searches Google Earth to find and compose images like this one, of the Cedar Point Oil Field near Houston. Henner’s way of looking at the ways that satellites look at the earth is an aesthetic and political act. The beauty of this image has to do with scale, point of view, and abstraction. The contrasting colors and delicate shapes of fossil infrastructure and its environs come into view only from an extreme distance, the view from space, which is in turn facilitated by infrastructure. To be close up, on the ground or in the water, embedded and embodied within this place, would not be so lovely. In other words, what and how you see depend on where you stand.” - Jennifer Wenzel, Forms of Life : Thinking Fossil Infrastructure and its Narrative Grammar" -- source link
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