"Monuments of Passaic" is a great essay, and the Smithsonian Entropy Tour is now firmly ensconced as a trope for artists to play around with. For example, Michael Ashkin made elaborate tabletop models of industrial landscapes and then, after he started showing at Andrea Rosen, began channeling Smithson (rather blandly, unfortunately) with photos and videos of the Jersey Outback. My purpose here isn't so much art as editorial photojournalism. Also, my thinking about the area I documented, such as it is, was much influenced by Frederick Turner's essay The Landscape of Disturbance or as I call it, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love FUBAR Ecosystems."
- tom moody 1-02-2003 11:41 pm





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