Blasted Art
Victoria, British Columbia
2016
When blasting rock for a new building foundation in a densely packed urban area, some means of containing the blast’s shrapnel is necessary. In this case in downtown Victoria they used these large woven mats of recycled rubber (tires perhaps). They were quite effective. Watching them work from our fifth floor hotel window across the street, I never saw any stray material flying anywhere. Too bad they were not effective at all at containing the blast noise or the more constant machinery noise as the rubble was being cleared away. The unpleasantly noisy environment did yield this quite pleasing abstract composition–another case of suffering for my art I guess. 🙂
My first impression of this photo was that it was rock striations and folds such as the sandstone in Zion. Very cool treatment! And seeing…
Thanks Kathy. The resemblance to geological strata is what I like best about this image.