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Beautiful Destruction is a series of ecology art photographs that depict America's
addiction to new construction.
Europeans think nothing of living and shopping in buildings that are centuries old. Americans, by
contrast start viewing houses, stores and even public buildings as 'old' or 'dated' merely twenty
years after construction.
When we stop at the convenience store, we look for the newest, most spacious one we can find.
We decry the land developers who strip the woods from the land, then search in the newest
subdivision for our new home and rave about the 'cool factor' of the newest mall in our city. We
rail against high tuitions at colleges, then point with pride to the new building on campus of our
alma mater--a building that replaced its thirty-year-old predecessor, which was leveled for the new
building.
This ecology art series draws the viewer into the photograph by presenting the subject matter of
rampant construction through a surprisingly artistic angle. The viewer is surprised to find beauty
in the subject of construction--notorious for its ugliness. As with the series Wired Nation, the
hope is that the viewer will then question, "Why this subject? Why did the photographer chose to
photograph this?" Within the answers to that question lie the beginnings of ecology education:
awareness of our own destructive habits.
addiction to new construction.
Europeans think nothing of living and shopping in buildings that are centuries old. Americans, by
contrast start viewing houses, stores and even public buildings as 'old' or 'dated' merely twenty
years after construction.
When we stop at the convenience store, we look for the newest, most spacious one we can find.
We decry the land developers who strip the woods from the land, then search in the newest
subdivision for our new home and rave about the 'cool factor' of the newest mall in our city. We
rail against high tuitions at colleges, then point with pride to the new building on campus of our
alma mater--a building that replaced its thirty-year-old predecessor, which was leveled for the new
building.
This ecology art series draws the viewer into the photograph by presenting the subject matter of
rampant construction through a surprisingly artistic angle. The viewer is surprised to find beauty
in the subject of construction--notorious for its ugliness. As with the series Wired Nation, the
hope is that the viewer will then question, "Why this subject? Why did the photographer chose to
photograph this?" Within the answers to that question lie the beginnings of ecology education:
awareness of our own destructive habits.
all photos and text copyrighted C. Chadwick 2007
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| out with the old |
| growing pains |
| disneyfied 'oh, uncle walt, what have you done?' |
| only the young survive |
| work in progress |