Portfolio Category: Mining

If the human experience can be considered a manifestation of dreams, and desires, mines can be thought of as the source for the raw material of that experience. On one level of understanding, that mineral-rich ore is manufactured into the objects of our collective desire: the automobiles we drive, televisions we watch, jets that fly us around the globe, houses that provide us with shelter and comfort, and an endless stream of gadgets and goods. If gold, silver and diamonds are the greatest valuables we bestow upon each other, to honor great citizens and profess our love, then are not the great voids we leave in that residual landscape a lasting testament to these ambitions?