Saturday, February 04, 2006

Miner's Peril

By Jane Rainwater, ©2005 (4) digital prints, 3’ x 3’.
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These four panels are about the perils of gold mining in the past when gold was mined underground in mineshafts. Drawings of the crystalline and molecular structures of gold "veil" other images of the skeleton and the miner (Margaret Bourke-White’s iconic 1935 photo of South African Gold Miner’s for Life Magazine) The tools panel is made from scanned toy tools.
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