This project was a response after visiting the abandoned Montana Tunnels
Mine site. I saw the disturbance from maps, and I wanted to check it
out while getting footage for a different project... I was able to
navigate some forest roads around the barbed and electric wire
surrounding the site, there was an area near the top of a near by ridge
where there was no fencing.. crossing over a grassy hilltop, I saw this giant hole in the ground.
After getting this footage, I was inspired to research the project. Primarily I am concerned with the fact that there are not plans for complete reclamation, this seems like an example of a mining company that has lost funding and will not be held accountable for reclamation.
This is the first activism or public media (non visual art) project I have made. Now I feel like the tone hits over the head pretty hard and is pretty biased, but the dialog of continuing to rely on mining is even more relevent now in light of plans for further development in the powder river basin.
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