To see the surface mines at all, Kessler had to fly. From a small plane he shot the stripped mountains with a medium-format camera, later stitching the frames into giant, military-grade mapping-precision panoramas — then printed them as wallpaper and installed them on the walls of buildings, delivering the source of energy production into the domestic settings that consume it. Alongside the aerial work sit oral histories: residents’ memories of a landscape that no longer exists in the form they remember it.
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