This photo-essay elides certain truths and exposes others. A sliding calculation looking closely at matter. At particular early morning angles, drawn to color and juxtaposition. Curiosity. The materiality of modernity. The arbitrary slant of necessity.
Recalling, tens of
thousands cubic yards of rock and “debris” were removed in the first
year, completed this spring. Now, installing underdrains, completing
grading, readying for construction of the two new 7.5 million gallon
tanks "built to withstand a Cascadia-level event."
Wondering.... what
does "gallon" as measurement of liquid volume mean? Or, for that
matter, a cubic yard? Millions of dollars? Cascadia-level "event"?
Are we at war with the Earth? Shock-and-Jaw? Or, are we nurturing the ancient well-spring of devotion? Trust-and-Awe?In the ebb-and-flow of tides, we, born of water, bearers of water, feel deeply: Water Is Life.
CODA
Usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.
—seismologist Charles Richter (1900-1984, namesake of the Richter scale)