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Scott MacInnis vs. GoogleMaps, Perspective of Brandon's Chapel, Euharlee, GA, 2014
Context is everything. Behind the trailer, those twin chimneys are from Plant Bowen with 'the largest generating capacity of any coal-fired power plant in North America.'
Nick Kahler vs. GoogleMaps, Trash Ziggurat, Smyrna, GA, 2013
Adjacent to the Smyrna location for the Waste Management corporation, there is a landfill created as a terraced mountain capped with a retired dumptruck as instant billboard / duck made decorated shed, fixed in place. This constructed environment, created through capitalist material and methods as a mountain of waste, approximates the 21st Century version of the Mesopotamian Ziggurat temple. These temples were some of the original megastructures, designed to be the phenomenological junction between heaven and earth as well as the residence of the gods. Viewed through this lens, garbage is now our transcendental medium, and our god and holy of the holies is that collector of refuse, the dumptruck. We are all invited to gather along I-285 to worship at the feet of capitalist modes of production and consumption.
