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The photo would be unremarkable without the context; in the caption, Stringfellow writes, "Notice how the mountain of ore has been graded to appear more 'natural.'" Stringfellow's work, which she calls a social practice, crosses disciplines, incorporating geography, ethnography and biology, though she's formally trained in none of those fields. PAHRUMP In early fall, Kim Stringfellow, a landscape photographer, camped in the Pahrump Valley, a stretch of the Mojave Desert just over the Nevada border, near a fenced-off solar facility owned by a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, a Florida-based company. Through its essays, photos, and various events, Stringfellow shows her audience that places like Devils Hole and the Amargosa Chaos and the Pahrump Valley exist, and not only that they exist, but they are complicated, wondrous, and, on the geologic time scale, fleeting. Stringfellow spoke of her own sprawling Mojave Project, an ever-growing art project that includes a reported essay and a photo series about industrial solar development in the desert. [Extracted from the article] |
